Reverse Dictionary: RENT

ADJECTIVES
► BACK-GANGING behindhand with rent → 1824 Sc.

NOUNS
► BUFFET FLAT a party held to raise rent money → 1982 US sl.
► BURTON-(ON-TRENT) rent → 1932 UK rhyming sl.
► CHAMBER MAIL rent paid for a room in lodgings → 1704 Sc. 
► DUKE OF KENT rent → 1932 UK rhyming sl.
► FALL rent; share, portion → 1768 Sc.
► LET a letting for hire or rent → 1684
► MAIL rent, payment in money or kind made under a lease → 1710 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MAIL-DUTY rent → 1638 Sc.
► MAILIN ► MAILING the rent of a farm → 1725 Sc.
► MAIL-ROOMS hired rooms; rooms for which rent is paid → c1626 Sc.
► RACK-RENT a very high, excessive, or extortionate rent; a rent equal (or nearly equal) to the full value of the land → 1607
► RANSOM an extravagant price or rent → 1882 Sc.
► RENT living quarters that are rented; an apartment or house to rent → 1913 Amer. dial.
► REVE a rent or tithe → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SILVER MAIL rent paid in money → 1597 Sc.
► TACK-DUTY rent → 1697 Sc. obs.
► TOLL rent paid for a house, mill, etc. → c1000 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► FARMER one who rents or has a lease of anything; a lessee → 1523 obs.
► HOUSELORD the owner of a rented house; a landlord who lets a house, apartment, etc. → 1834
► MAILER one who pays rent → 1452 Sc.
► MAIL-MAN one who pays rent; a tenant → 1609 Sc.
► MAIL PAYER one liable to pay rent; a tenant → 1724 Sc.
► RACKER one who charges excessive rent → 1607
► RENT-RACKER a ‘rack-renter’; one who collects rents harshly → 1868 Sc.
► RACK-RENTER 1. one who pays rack-rent (a very high, excessive, or extortionate rent) → 1680
2. a landlord who exacts a rack rent or rack rents → 1843
► TAKER-UP a receiver of money paid, as rent, etc.; a rent-collector → 1591

VERBS
► BLOW THROUGH to leave, to depart without paying rent → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► DO A FADE to disappear without paying the rent → 20C Can. carnival workers’ sl.
► DO A POWDER to leave without paying one’s rent → 1940s sl.
► MAIL to rent, to pay rent for → 1425 Sc.
► MOVE TO THE BLIND to leave one’s rented premises without paying the rent → L19
► RACK-RENT to subject to the payment of rack-rent → 1748
► SHOOT THE MOON to remove household goods by night in order to avoid seizure for rent → 1836
► TAKE A POWDER to leave without paying one’s rent → 1940s sl.