† ˈbedrip Obs.
Also bedrepe, (bederpe), bederepe, -rape, bedripe, bidrip(e, -repe.
[OE. bed-r{iacu}p, f. bed- prayer, request (see bead) + r{iacu}p reaping, harvest: lit. ‘reaping by request’; called also bén-r{iacu}p, f. bén prayer. Retained as a technical term in charters, etc., and variously corrupted: seems to have become obs. in 15th c.]
A service which some tenants had to perform to their lord, viz. at his request or bidding to reap his corn at harvest-time. The days thus employed were sometimes called boon-days.
| 1226 10 Hen. III. Rot. 8 (Blount) Debent venire in autumpno ad precariam quæ vocatur a le bederepe. 1417 E.E. Wills (1882) 27 My poure tenauntes..that haueth yȝeue to me Capouns & bederpes, and Plouwys. 1670 Blount Law Dict. Bederepe, Bidrepe is a service, which some Tenants were anciently bound to perform, viz. To reap their Landlord's Corn at Harvest. |