Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mainor"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mainor \Main"or\, n. [Anglo-Norm. meinoure, OF. manuevre. See
{Maneuver}.] (O. Eng. Law)
A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.
Note: A thief was said to be ``taken with the mainor,'' when
he was taken with the thing stolen upon him, that is,
in his hands. --Wharton. --Bouvier.
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