rerefief

From French arrière-fief. See rear (“hinder”), and fief.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪə(ɹ)fiːf/

rerefief (plural rerefiefs)

1. (Scots law, historical) A fief held by an intermediary or subtenant

   Synonym: subfief

   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     by these means the feodal polity was greatly extended; these inferior feudatories (who held what are called in the Scots law "rerefiefs") being under similar obligations of fealty

• “rerefief”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• free-fire