Tithing
A tithing or tything was a historic English legal, administrative or territorial unit, originally ten hides (and hence, one tenth of a hundred). Tithings later came to be seen as subdivisions of a manor or civil parish. The tithing’s leader or spokesman was known as a tithingman.
Tything (noun)
obsolete form of tithing
Tithing (noun)
A tithe or tenth in its various senses, :
Tithing (noun)
The tithe given as an offering to the church.
Tithing (noun)
The payment of tithes.
Tithing (noun)
Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).
Tithing (noun)
A punishment for each other’s behavior.
Tithing (noun)
A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
Tithing (noun)
Decimation: the killing of every tenth person or the killing of every person except each tenth.
Tithing (noun)
A reward, grant, or concession.
Tithing (verb)
inflection of tithe||pres|part
Tithing (noun)
the practice of taking or paying a tithe
“receipts from tithing range from $2.5 billion to $4.3 billion each year”
Tithing (noun)
(in England) a group of ten householders who lived close together and were collectively responsible for each other’s behaviour.
Tithing (noun)
a rural division, originally regarded as a tenth of a hundred.