esne

[ ez-nee, -ne ]
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noun
  1. (in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.

Origin of esne

1
before 950; <Old English; cognate with Old High German asni,Gothic asneis day laborer, harvester, akin to asans harvest

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