aver-in some compound terms pertaining to feudal usage, appears to be connected with average n.1 Of these terms, we have only the explanations (usually inferences from the assumed derivation) offered by legal editors of 16th and 17th centuries, which are of very doubtful value:—†1.aver-corn. ? Corn paid as a feudal due or in lieu of service.[1263Charter in Thorn Chron. 1912/2 Quoddam servitium annuum quod avercorn vocatur, sub mensura minus certa.]1670Blount Law Dict., Aver-corn, is such Corn, as by Custom is brought by the Tenants Carts or Carriages to the Lords Granary or Barn.1695Kennett Gloss., Aver-corn a reserved rent in corn paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers.†2.averland. ? Land subject to ‘average.’1670Blount Law Dict., Averland, Item Cellarius libere solebat capere omnia sterquilinia ad suum opus in omni vico, nisi ante ostia eorum qui habebant Averland. Mon. Angl. i. par. fol. 302. a. It seems to have been such Land as the Tenants did plow and manure, cum averiis suis, for the proper Use of a Monastery or Lord of the Soil: [Chron. J. de Brakelonda 75] Quod autem nunc vocatur Averland, fuit terra rusticorum, which was subject to Averages, or the Lord's Carriages.†3.averpenny. ? Money paid in lieu of ‘average.’ (Cf. average1quot. 1206.)1253–1378St. M. Magd. Coll.MS. in 4th Rep. R. Com.Hist.MSS. (1874) 459/1 [Richard ii. 1378, 12 May. Confirmation to the Knights Hospitallers of charters granted to the Templars by Henry iii in 1224, and 1253; of which charters the latter..exempts them from all taxes and tolls, including] wardepeny et averpeny et hundredepeny et borghelpeny et thethingepeny.1579Rastell Expos. Term. 26 Averpeny, that is to bee quite of diuers summes of money for the kinges auerages.1691Blount Law Dict., Averpeny (quasi average-peny) is Money contributed towards the Kings Averages, or Money given to be freed thereof.†4.aver-silver. ? = averpenny. (Halliwell suggests: ‘A custom or rent so called, originating from the cattle, or avers of the tenants of the soil.’)