"esne" meaning in English

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        "t": "to labor for, strive after, deserve as the reward of labor, merit, earn, win"
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  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Old English esne, from Proto-West Germanic *asnī, from Proto-Germanic *asnijaz (“day labourer, hireling”), from Proto-Germanic *asniz, *asunz (“reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *os(e)n-, *es(e)n- (“summer, harvest, harvest-time”). Related to Old English earnian (“to labor for, strive after, deserve as the reward of labor, merit, earn, win”). More at earn.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1818, Samuel Heywood, A dissertation upon the distinctions in society",
          "text": "To an esne, therefore, I refer the entry in Doomsday-book, that at Chester, if a male or female slave shall do any […]",
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          "ref": "1875, William Stubbs, The constitutional history of England, in its origin and development",
          "text": "[…] of British extraction captured or purchased, — or of the common German stock descended from the slaves of the first colonists: the esne or slave who works for hire; […]",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, David Anthony Edgell Pelteret, Slavery in Early Mediaeval England",
          "text": "[…] insist that in the event of the death of an esne his full value had to be paid.",
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        "A hireling of servile status; slave."
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        "(Anglo-Saxon, historical) A hireling of servile status; slave."
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  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Old English esne, from Proto-West Germanic *asnī, from Proto-Germanic *asnijaz (“day labourer, hireling”), from Proto-Germanic *asniz, *asunz (“reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *os(e)n-, *es(e)n- (“summer, harvest, harvest-time”). Related to Old English earnian (“to labor for, strive after, deserve as the reward of labor, merit, earn, win”). More at earn.",
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          "text": "[…] insist that in the event of the death of an esne his full value had to be paid.",
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