TITHING

Tithing

A tithing or tything was an historic English legal, administrative or territorial unit, originally one tenth of a hundred, and later a subdivision of a manor or civil parish. The term implies a grouping of ten households . The tithing's leader or spokesman was known as a tithingman.

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tithing

Noun

  1. A rural division of land, originally corresponding to ten households under the frank-pledge system.

Verb

tithing



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