1lawtype of free tenure, partly military and partly servile, originating in pre-Norman Northumbria:
(
1302
)
ceaux qui tenunt del evesque par certeine servise ou en drengage, [...]
iii 42
(
1346
)
le quel J. tint mesme le maner del Roi en chiefe par drengage
20 ii Ed III 385
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