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                  Ass Ast

                  astriction

                  a feudal condition on some lands by which holders of those lands were bound to have their corn ground at only one particular mill, for which they would pay multures and sequels; the lands subject to this obligation, which were astricted (or thirled) to the mill, were called the mill’s sucken.