What's paid to a landlord
• of Rend • To rant. • imp. & p. p. of Rend. • An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear. • Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church. • To tear. See Rend. • Income; revenue. See Catel. • Pay; reward; share; toll. • A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.