Hayward vs Medkniche - What's the difference?
hayward | medkniche |
(obsolete) One whose occupation involved overseeing the sowing and harvesting of crops as well as protecting the crops from stray people or animals.
* 1877 , William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves, & George Sharswood, A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors , p571
* 1881 , The Antiquary , vol III, p255
* 1890 , Jean Jules Jusserand, English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages , p24
In medieval England, the amount of hay which could be lifted by the little finger up to the knee. This was a form of payment for haywards.
As nouns the difference between hayward and medkniche
is that hayward is one whose occupation involved overseeing the sowing and harvesting of crops as well as protecting the crops from stray people or animals while medkniche is in medieval England, the amount of hay which could be lifted by the little finger up to the knee. This was a form of payment for haywards.As a proper noun Hayward
is {{surname|lang=en}.hayward
English
(wikipedia hayward)Noun
(en noun)- ... it was held that this was not indictable, for till the horse got to the pound the hayward was merely acting as the servant of the owner of the land ...
- The hayward at the same place had an acre of the lord's corn in autumn, always in a certain part of the field.
- A horn, such as our man wears, was always worn by a hayward , who used to blow it to warn off people from straying in the crops.
