wardcorn

Etymology

From ward + corn.

wardcorn means A payment of corn to be offered in commutation of military service. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

A payment of corn to be offered in commutation of military service.“And that the aforesaid Abbess and convent and their successors, and all tenants, residents, and non-residents, and other residents aforesaid, […] be quit through our entire realm of England of all pannage, lestage, […] and of treasure to be drawn away, and of wardpeny, wardcorne, averpeny, hundredpeny, […] and of all such custom”