Definitions for messuage

messuage mes·suage

Spelling: [mes-wij]
IPA: /ˈmɛs wɪdʒ/

Messuage is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in messuage (aeegmssu).

Definitions for messuage

noun

  1. a dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and the lands appropriated to the use of the household.

Origin of messuage

1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-French, misreading (n taken as u) of Old French mesnage ménage

Examples for messuage

On the other hand, a poor woman holds a messuage, and need do no more than carry water to the mowers.

The ancient great hall of this messuage is yet standing, and pertaining to a great brewhouse for beer.

Reginald Cobham gave his messuage in London to the enlarging thereof, in the year 1344.

The following is an abstract of the services of a tenant who held a messuage and xviii.

The first plot of ground obtained was a messuage of Robert de Croylands in 1336.

Richard Shakespere, one messuage, half a yd land (14 acres), 14/.

messuage, a dwelling-house with buildings and land attached for the use of the household.

A few cases occur, but only a few, where a messuage is held without land.

This is very suggestive of a law-writer's spelling of "message" (messuage and tenement).

A free tenant had a messuage and 33/4 acres, the rent of which was 3s.

Word Value for messuage
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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