LekhoriLekhoriA tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
I prayed for the sick and saw some of them healed under my hands. I was given tithings of money and food by people who had not enough to eat themselves.
Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor).
I see the boys of summer in their ruin / Lay the gold tithings barren, / Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils
A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior.
present participle and gerund of tithe
From Middle English tithyng, from Old English tēoþung or tēoðung, from tēoða (“a tithe”) + -ing (suffix forming patronymics and diminutives) and tēoþian (“to tithe”) + -ung (suffix forming verbal noun...
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