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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage.

[Obs. or Scots Law]

Jamieson.

manrent ‎(countable and uncountable, plural manrents)

(historical, Scotland) A contract, usually military and between Scottish clans, in which a weaker man or clan pledged to serve, in return for protection, a stronger lord or clan.
- 2003, Christine Peters, Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640, page 25:
  Although there is no precise statistical analysis of assythments, bonds of manrent were only very rarely used in such circumstances.