tiend
English
Etymology
Compare with Norwegian Bokmål tiende
Noun
tiend (plural tiends)
- (Scotland) A tithe; a teind.
- 1693, James Viscount of Stair, The Institutions of The Law of Scotland, book 4, title 24 “Petitory Actions for Tiends or Tiend-duties”, page 615:
- Tiends are introduced by Law and Custom, … for Tennents paying a Joint-duty for Stock and Tiend, are not liable for the Tiend (but their Masters are)…
- 1804, February 6, anonymous, The Farmer's Magazine, volume 5, “On Augmentation of Stipends in Victual”, page 48:
- In New Luce, Wigtonshire, the free tiends of the parish are already exhausted … the sum modified would more than exhaust the tiend, part being in grain…
- 1884, Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 1, part 2, ballad 39A “Tam Lin”, verse 24, page 342:
- Ay at the end of seven years,
We pay a tiend to hell,
- Ay at the end of seven years,
- 1693, James Viscount of Stair, The Institutions of The Law of Scotland, book 4, title 24 “Petitory Actions for Tiends or Tiend-duties”, page 615:
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