frankpledge

frankpledge has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• n.. A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.
• n.. The tithing itself.