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  1. Manor
    [department store] Manor AG is a Swiss department store chain with its headquarter in Basel. With an estimated market share of 60%, Manor is Switzerland’s biggest department-store chain. The Manor Group extends to the 65 Manor stores employing some 11,300 personnel, the Athleticum sports g...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_(department_store)

  2. Manor
    Ancient Measurement Terms: Small holding, typically 1200-1800 acres, with its own court and probably its own hall, but not necessarily having a manor house. The manor as a unit of land was generally held by a knight (knight's fee) or managed by a bailiff for some other holder. In later years, the po...
    Found op http://www.hemyockcastle.co.uk/measure.htm

  3. manor
    [n] - the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it) 2. [n] - the mansion of the lord of the manor
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=manor

  4. Manor
    (Ancient Money Terms:) Small holding, typically 1200-1800 acres, with its own court and probably its own hall, but not necessarily having a manor house. The manor as a unit of land was generally held by a knight (knight's fee) or managed by a bailiff for some other holder.
    Found op http://www.hemyockcastle.co.uk/money.htm

  5. Manor
    a landed estate, usually comprising a DEMESNE and lands held by VILLAGERs, BORDARs, or COTTAGERs and sometimes also FREE MEN, FRENCHMEN, RIDING MEN etc, which could vary in size from part of one village to several villages over a wide area; power over men (and women), ranging from civil to criminal ...
    Found op http://www.msgb.co.uk/glossary.html

  6. manor
    Basic economic unit in feudalism in Europe, established in England under the Norman conquest. It consisted of the lord's house and cultivated land, land rented by free tenants, lan...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  7. Manor
    The land held by a lord - perhaps as payment for services or as a reward. This entailed various customs and obligations to and from the lord. The lord could expect his tenants to grind their crops at his mill; he would also have the pick of crops and livestock. In exchange the lord was to serve his...
    Found op http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/k2p.nsf/k2pGlossaryList?readform&let

  8. Manor
    Man'or noun [ Middle English maner , Old French maneir habitation, village, French manoir manor, prop. the Old French inf. maneir to stay, remain, dwell, Latin manere , and so called because it was the permanent reside...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/19

  9. manor
    manor house noun the mansion of a lord or wealthy person
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=manor

  10. manor
    noun the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=manor



  1. Manor
    • (n.) The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family. • (n.) A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by perform...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/manor/

  2. manor
    (from the article `manorialism`) ...and landless were ensured permanent access to plots of land which they could work in return for the rendering of economic services to the lord who ... The kingdoms were normally divided for purposes of royal administration into cantrefs. These in turn consisted of...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/28

  3. Manor
    Manor is slang for the home district felt to belong to a person or gang.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/ZM.HTM

  4. Manor
    Manor is slang for the home district felt to belong to a person or gang.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/ZM.HTM

  5. Manor
    This word is derived from the French manoir, and signifies, a house, residence, or habitation. At present its meaning is more enlarged, and includes not only a dwelling-house, but also lands.By the English law, a manor is a tract of land originally granted by the king to a person of rank, part of wh...
    Found op http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/m081.htm

  6. Manor
    Manor is a name given in England from the llth century to an estate of a certain kind. The system was also found in France, Germany. and other parts of Europe where feudalism prevailed, and something akin to it elsewhere. The origin of the manor has given rise to discussion. A Roman parentage has be...
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AM.HTM

  7. manor
    Basic economic unit in feudalism in Europe, established in England under the Norman conquest. It consisted of the lord's house and cultivated land, land rented by free tenants, land held by villagers, common land, woodland, and waste land. Here and there traces of the system survive in England – t...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0004657.html

  8. Manor
    [play] Manor, a play by Martin Murphy, ran through March to April 2010 at the Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden. It was described as "a fierce and disturbing debut play about North London gangsters by a new talent, well acted by a young cast that deliver a sit-up-and-take-notice ferocit...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_(play)

  9. Manor
    [Sefton ward] Manor is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward in the Sefton Central Parliamentary constituency that covers the localities of Thornton, Little Crosby, and Hightown. ==Councillors== ==Election results== ===Elections of the 2010s=== ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_(Sefton_ward)

  10. Manor
    A manor in English law is an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron, that is to say a manorial court. The proper unit of tenure under the feudal system is the fee, on which the manor became established through the process of time, akin to the modern establi...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor

  11. manor
    1) Big house 2) Bruce wayne's home, e.g. 3) Bruce wayne's home, for one 4) Butler's workplace 5) Country estate 6) Demesne house 7) English country home 8) English estate 9) Estate 10) Feudal estate 11) Hall 12) Hous...
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/manor/1

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