corvee

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One polity in this nation developed the position of uparaja under Trailokanat and used a corvee system of nai and phrai before it fell to Alaungpaya.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013

The corn-husking corvee, for reasons which do not need elucidation, was of course the most popular of these.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett

So far as a painstaking study of the records can disclose, the corvee obligation was never looked upon as an imposition of any moment.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett

Six days of corvee per year was all that the seigneur could demand; and he usually asked for only three, that is to say, one day each in the seasons of ploughing, seedtime, and harvest.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett

These works were constructed by a general corvee or levy en masse, each family being required to provide one able-bodied man, and the whole of the army was also employed on this public undertaking.

From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles