† metecorn Obs.
Also 4 mette-, 5 met-.
[OE., f. męte meat n. + corn1.]
An allowance (properly, of corn) made to servants, to inmates of a hospital, etc.
| 1050 in Thorpe Charters (1865) 580 Ilk habbe his..metecu & his metecorn. 1320 Rolls of Parlt. I. 367/1 Stipendia & metecorn, ac cetera debita servientum in monasterio predicto. 1385–6 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 391 Tribus servientibus apud le Hough pro le mettecorn. 1402–3 Ibid. 218 Pro frumento et pecunia datis pro metkorn hominibus de hospitalibus de Witton et de Maudelens. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 335/2 Mete corne, panicium. 1522–3 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 255 Pro le metcorn sowlsilver et aliis necessariis. [1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey).] |