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Mulcture

Definition

Mulcture rate
(Noun) A toll to which millers are entitled, (the 24th part of the grain ground) in lieu of a money payment. (see Multure)
Usage: The tenants of these mills were enabled to take mulcture, and questions not infrequently arose as to the extent of this toll.

"And to detest man's raids and mulctures"
- from Fables of John Gay (1727)


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