tythe

[ tahyth ]

noun, verb (used with or without object),tythed, tyth·ing.British.

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How to use tythe in a sentence

  • Tything-man Eliot was the spokesman as the four stood to administer justice.

    Some Three Hundred Years Ago | Edith Gilman Brewster
  • Thus in the tything of Gillingham alone forty-five deaths are recorded, and in the neighbouring tything of Bourton seventeen.

    The Great Pestilence (A.D. 1348-9) | Francis Aidan Gasquet
  • Your father's disgrace was great enough, but this from a child to our worthy tything men cannot be overlooked.

    Some Three Hundred Years Ago | Edith Gilman Brewster
  • Paradise Row, as every one knows, is right at the other end of the town, past the Tything.

    Johnny Ludlow, Third Series | Mrs. Henry Wood
  • Gradually the name tything was given to the district, though many more tuns had grown up upon it.

    Our English Towns and Villages | H. R. Wilton Hall