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Complete Definition of "eric"

see|Eric
English
Etymology
From Ir. eiric.

Pronunciation
IPA|/��ɹɪk/

Noun
en-noun

  1. A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.

#*1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18:
#*:The court-poets of Wales [...] could demand an eric of �nine cows, and nine-score pence of money besides�.

Related terms
eriach

References
OED 2nd edition 1989

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