corrodier
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin corrodium, corredium, conredium (“furniture, provision”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcorrodier (plural corrodiers)
- (historical) One receiving a corrody, or allowance from the Church, in return for previous payment or service (usually in the Middle Ages)
- 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 20, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 279:
- Outside the minster walls were the cottages of the corrodiers, or folk who, for a corrody, or life pittance from the abbey, had given away their lands.