Slerf: noun. A historically outdated class of people who were neither slaves nor serfs and were defined in Norman society by the following rules:
1. They were allowed to own no land.
2. They worked for their superior receiving no pay for any service provided.
3. Most importantly, they were only partial property of their master (hence the fact that they were neither slaves nor serfs). This meant that their master owned a certain share of "their" slerf, usually ranging from about 40 to 75 per cent and he was allowed to "cash in" at any time, meaning that he could hack off as large a portion of the slerf as he owned.
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