prest noun².LME-E18.
[Origin unkn.]
A sheet of parchment.

[TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲

prest noun¹. [prɛst] obsolete exc. Hist. LME.
[Old French (mod. prêt), from prester lend.]
1. A loan of money, esp. to a monarch in an emergency. LME-M17.

2. A payment of wages in advance. LME.
in prest as an advance.

3. spec. A sum of money paid to a sailor or soldier on enlistment; an enlistment of a person by such payment. L15-E17.

4. A tax, an impost. L15-M16.

► Cf. IMPREST noun.

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