The payment of custom or tribute. Scott.

Property subject to the gaffoldgild, or liable to be taxed. Scott.

The same word as “gabel” or “gavel.” Rent; tax ; interest of money.

v. In old English law. To pawn or pledge; to give as security for a payment orperformance; to wage or wager.

In old English law. When he who has distrained, being sued, has not delivered the cattle distrained,then he shall not only avow the distress, but gagcr dclivcrance, i. e., put insurety or

Wager of law, (q. v.)

Profits; winnings; increment of value. Gray v. Darlington, 15 Wall. 65, 21L. Ed. 45; Thorn v. De Breteuil, SO App. Div. 405, 83 N. Y. Supp. 840.

The gain or profit of tilled or planted land, raised by cultivating it; and thedraught, plow, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser kind ofsoke men or

Tillage, or the profit arising from it, or from the beasts employed therein.

In old English law. A soke- man; one who occupied or cultivated arablelaud. Old Nat. Brev. fol. 12.

A thick wood. Spelman.

The payment of a rent, tax, duty, or annuity.A gale is the right to open and work a mine within the Hundred of St. Brlavel’s, or astone quarry within the open lands

In old records. A piratical vessel; a galley.

A kind of coin which, with suskius and doitkins, was forbidden by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1.

A cock-shoot, or cock-glade.

A liquid measure, containing 231 cubic inches, or four quarts. The imperialgallon contains about 277, and the ale gallon 2S2, cubic inches. Hollender v. Ma- gone(C. C.) 38 Fed. 914; Nichols v.

A scaffold; a beam laid over either one or two posts, from which malefactors are hanged.

In old European law. A stroke or blow. Spelman.

A child born in lawful wedlock ; also one born to betrothed but unmarried parents. Spelman.

To game or play at a game for money. Buckley v. O’NIel, 113 Mass. 193,18 Am. Rep. 406. The word “gamble” is perhaps the most apt and substantial to convey the idea