tithings

noun

1. a tithe.
2. a giving or an exacting of tithes.
3. a grouping of men, originally 10 in number, for legal and security purposes in the Anglo-Saxon and Norman system of frankpledge.
4. a rural division in England, originally regarded as one tenth of a hundred, descended from this system.

noun English history

1. 1. a tithe; tenth
   2. the exacting or paying of tithes
2. a company of ten householders in the system of frankpledge
3. a rural division, originally regarded as a tenth of a hundred