Sulung

name, noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A unit of land in medieval Kent, comparable to the hide and the carucate. historical

    "The counting of sulungs (as of hides) is a horrible task on which no two scholars agree, and it is not surprising that before the age of the computer Jolliffe made slips and that his desire to find eighty-sulung units sometimes overrode the evidence or the geographical probabilities."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Puroik language. dated

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puroik

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"The counting of sulungs (as of hides) is a horrible task on which no two scholars agree, and it is not surprising that before the age of the computer Jolliffe made slips and that his desire to find eighty-sulung units sometimes overrode the evidence or the geographical probabilities."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English sulung, from sulh (“plough, ploughland”).

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