chiefrie

English

Noun

chiefrie (plural chiefries)

1. (obsolete or historical) A small rent paid to the lord paramount.
   • May 24 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner, Number 42

     There are a thousand instances of this all over England, in reserved rents applied to hospitals, in old chiefries, and even among the clergy themselves, in those payments which, I think, they call a modus.

References

• “chiefrie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.