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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[LL.

marcheta

; of uncertain origin.]

In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant’s daughters.

merchet ‎(plural merchets)

(obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.