corrody
Americannoun
plural
corrodiesnoun
Example Sentences
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It’s believed the suspect headed in the direction of Corrody Road.
From BBC
They ran towards Corrody Road where the object was later discovered close to a sports pitch.
From BBC
The Abbess of Malling in 1324 was forbidden to give a corrody to her maid.
From Project Gutenberg
Nor was there much harm in grants for a term of years, such as the grant of board and lodging made by the convent of Nunappleton in 1301 to Richard de Fauconberg, in return for certain lands bringing in an annual rent of two marks of silver, both the corrody and the tenure of these lands being for a term of twelve years.
From Project Gutenberg
There is in the Record Office a petition to the Chancellor from Richard Englyssh and Marjorie his wife, setting out that the Bishop of Rochester had granted Marjorie for life a corrody in Malling Abbey of seven loaves and four gallons of convent ale and three pence for cooked food weekly, which corrody she and her husband had held for some time, but that now the abbess and convent withheld it.
From Project Gutenberg
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