Ser'geant-y, n.

noun

(sär′-, or sər′-), n. [L. Lat. sergentia, sergantiū. See SERGEANT.] An honorary kind of service that can not be due from a tenant to any lord, but to the king only. [Eng.]

Grand sergeanty, a particular kind of tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like. Tomlins. Cowell. Blackstone.—Petit sergeanty. See PETIT.