pl.n.
The crops or products of the land legally belonging to a tenant.
[From Middle English emblaiment, from Old French emblaement, from emblaer, to sow with grain, from Medieval Latin imblādāre : Latin in-, in; see en-1 + Medieval Latin blādum, blādium, grain (of Germanic origin).]
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