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thirlage
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thirlagenoun
(Scots) The right of the owner of a mill to compel tenants to bring all their grain to that mill for milling.
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Thirlagenoun
the right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding
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Thirlage
Thirlage was the law in regard of the milling of grain for personal or other uses. Vassals in a feudal barony were thirled to their local mill owned by the feudal superior. People so thirled were called suckeners and were obliged to pay for use of the mill and help maintain it. The term Thirl originated from the feudal past when a thirl was a body servant, retainer or vassal to a noble or chief. The term is interchangeable with 'Carl' and indicates subservience to the feudal lord and feudal laws; the situation being not that far removed from the conditions of slavery. The obligations of thirlage eventually ceased to apply, but thirlage in Scotland was only formally and totally abolished on 28 November 2004 by the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. Act 2000. Similar requirements existed and were enforced actively in England. Thirlage was the feudal law by which the laird could force all those vassals living on his lands to bring their grain to his mill to be ground. The law ensured that all the grain the vassals produced could be measured and thus taxed. Vassals had to carry out repairs on the mill, maintaining the lade and weir as well as conveying new millstones to the site. Such trees as beech and particularly hornbeam were grown as a crop to provide the necessary wood for the mill machinery.
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litharge
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of thirlage in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of thirlage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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