lendings (2 a 16th-17th cent. use; ‘Succors or lendings which they giue souldiers where there is no paie, and when the paie comes they take it off,’ Minsheu, 1599)
1.
non-essential
appurtenances Lr. III. iv.
112.
2.
money advance to
soldiers when the regular pay cannot be given R2 I. i. 89.
