feu

/ (fjuː) /


noun
  1. Scot legal history

    • a feudal tenure of land for which rent was paid in money or grain instead of by the performance of military service

    • the land so held

  2. Scots law a right to the use of land in return for a fixed annual payment (feu duty)

Origin of feu

1
C15: from Old French; see fee

Words Nearby feu

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How to use feu in a sentence

  • He bounds from the earth as if his entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus qui a les narines de feu!

    Rookwood | William Harrison Ainsworth
  • Sa main droite perce d'un cousteau fut brusle feu de souphre.

  • La coigne est ia mise la racine des arbres: parquoy tout arbre qui ne fait pas bon fruit, sera coupp & iett au feu, Mat.

    Printers' Marks | William Roberts
  • And the abb snapped both fingers and thumbs in a double-barrelled feu de joie.

    The Isle of Unrest | Henry Seton Merriman
  • General de la Motterouge had fought in the Crimea: "Peu de feu et beaucoup de bayonette" had been his maxim then.

    The Isle of Unrest | Henry Seton Merriman