vicontiels

English

Etymology

See vicontiel.

Noun

vicontiels pl (plural only)

1. (UK, law, obsolete) Things belonging to the sheriff, especially farms (also called "vicontiel rents") for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• novelistic