DICT.TW Dictionary Taiwan
3.137.198.232
Search for:
▼[Show options]
[Pronunciation] [Help] [Database Info] [Server Info]

2 definitions found

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 frank·pledge /ˈfræŋkˌplɛʤ/
 十家連保制,十戶

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Frank·pledge n.  O. Eng. Law (a) A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety. (b) The tithing itself.
    The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other.   --Macaulay.
 ◄ ►