gale

gale (gayl). Hist.

1. A periodic payment of rent. See GAVEL(2).

2. Rent paid by a free miner (the galee) for the right to mine a plot of land.

3. A license to mine a plot of land. • A gale could be conveyed or devised.

4. The land so licensed.

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