Usually means: Payment to lord at death.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. heriot: Merriam-Webster
  2. heriot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heriot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heriot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Heriot, heriot: Wordnik
  6. heriot: Wiktionary
  7. heriot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. heriot: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Heriot, heriot: Dictionary.com
  10. heriot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Heriot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Heriot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. heriot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Heriot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. heriot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. heriot: FreeDictionary.org
  17. heriot: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. heriot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Heriot: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HERIOT: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heriot (disambiguation), heriot: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Heriot)

noun:  (obsolete) The return of military equipment.
noun:  (archaic) A payment made to a lord on the death of a tenant.
noun:  (dated) A tribute.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A scattered settlement in Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically part of Midlothian (OS grid ref NT3952 to NT4054).
noun:  A settlement in West Otago, New Zealand.

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