rare. [Short for bond-sucken (cf. love-soken s.v. LOVE sb. 16), properly a sb. = compulsory resort of a tenant to a mill for the grinding of his corn.] Astricted to a mill; = THIRL a.
[1523. Fitzherb., Surv., 9 b. The lordes tenauntes be called bonde socon.
1859. Dickinson, Gloss. Words & Phr. Cumberld., 11. Some farms are bound by tenure to carry their corn to the manorial mill to be multured and ground, and are ‘bond-sucken’ to that mill.]
1878. J. Davidson, Inverurie, Introd. 7. The corns sucken to the mill. Ibid., v. 178. Conglass and Drimmies were sucken to the very ancient Mill of Inveramsay.
1882. in Jamieson’s Sc. Dict.
