folkland

English

Etymology

From Old English folcland. Equivalent to folk +‎ land.

Noun

folkland (countable and uncountable, plural folklands)

1. (law, historical, UK) Land held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion.
   • 1889, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution:

     The folkland, the national fund, was administered and conveyed conjointly by the king and the witan.

Related terms

• bookland

References

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

Anagrams

• landfolk