merchet

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merchet - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Marchet \Mar"chet\, Merchet \Mer"chet\, n. [LL. marcheta; of
     uncertain origin.]
     In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of
     the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's
     daughters.
     [1913 Webster]