multure

From Middle English multūr, from Old French molture (modern French mouture), from Medieval Latin molitura, from the past participle stem of molere ‘grind’. Compare mill.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌlt͡ʃə/
• Rhymes: -ʌltʃə(ɹ)

multure (countable and uncountable, plural multures)

1. A grinding of grain, or the grain that is ground.
2. (Scotland, historical) A toll paid to a miller, mill-owner etc., generally in kind, for grinding corn or pulverizing ore.

   Synonym: emolument

   • 1830, Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language: Exhibiting the Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definitions of Words‎^[1], Sherman Converse, page 546:

     MULTURE, n. [L. molitura.] 1. In Scottish law, the toll or emolument given to the proprietor of a mill for grinding corn. 2. A grist or grinding.

   • 1963, James Edmund Handley, The Agricultural Revolution in Scotland‎^[2], Burns, page 155:

     […] quantity reserved for seed and stock. Sometimes an agreement was in operation known as dry multure, by which tenants conceded a part of their grain for the privilege of going to the market with the rest. A third species was known as the thirlage of invecta et illata, existing in most of the burghs of Scotland, by which corn, wherever grown, if brought for consumption within the […]

• thirlage

multure (third-person singular simple present multures, present participle multuring, simple past and past participle multured)

1. (Scotland, historical, transitive) To charge a multure on.

From Old French molture (modern French mouture), from Medieval Latin molitura, from the past participle stem of molere ‘grind’. Compare mill.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌlt͡ʃə/

multure (plural multures)

1. (historical, agriculture) multure