Farmhold

[f. FARM sb.² + HOLD sb.] A quantity of land held and cultivated as a farm.

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1449. Plumpton Corr., 68. He thinks to have the farm-hould for 2vij^s. viii^d. in one yeare; but he shall not.

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1504. Plumpton Cor., 184. I will not lett Tho: Croft wife plow nor occupie her fermeald.

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1567. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees), I. 275. I geue to my wyf Agness … the leas of my fremhold during hir lyf naturall.

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1628. Coke, Littleton, 5 a. A fearme is called in Lancashire a fermeholt.

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1774. T. West, Antiq. Furness (1805), 151. Grants, fermholds, annuities, corridies.

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1882. G. Ornsby, York, 27. Under a corrupted form it [the name Jacobi villa] probably still survives in the appellation of a farmhold.

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