Word Meaning

Meaning of "feud" and the crossword clue

- Bitter prolonged quarrel
- Clash of families
- Gang warfare
- Long-running dispute
- Prolonged quarrel
- Quarrel
- Vendetta
- A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money.
- A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
- A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
- A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.