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Old English tenant
Answer for the clue "Old English tenant ", 6 letters:
socman
Word definitions for socman in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context UK legal obsolete English) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Socman \Soc"man\, n.; pl. Socmen . [See Socage .] (O. Eng. Law) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager. --Cowell.
Usage examples of socman.
Above all, the owner of the soil could still hold his head high as the veritable Socman of Minstead--that is, as holding the land in free socage, with no feudal superior, and answerable to no man lower than the king.
Some day, perchance, in joust or in tourney, knight may wish to wear my colors, and then I shall tell him that if he does indeed crave my favor there is wrong unredressed, and the wronger the Socman of Minstead.