n.
A medieval English freeholder of nonnoble birth holding extensive property.
[Middle English frankelein, from Anglo-Norman fraunclein, from Anglo-Norman franc. See frank1.]
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franklin
American Heritage Dictionary:
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A medieval English freeholder of nonnoble birth holding extensive property.
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[Etymology: B. Franklin; USA 1706-90] electric charge Metric-c.g.s.-e.s.u. A name for statcoulomb.
[Guggenheim E. A. Nature Vol. 148, 751 (1941)]
An obsolete term for a lightning rod.
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