What does "rent" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.Figuratively, a schim; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
2. 3.To tear. See Rend. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. 4.Incone; revenue. See Catel. [Obs.] "Catel had they enough and rent." Chaucer. [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and bordel he dispent. Gower. So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as you see I do. Pope.
4. 5.Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.] Death, that taketh of high and low his rent. Chaucer.
5. 6.(Law) 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. Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattles, as a piano, a sewing machine, etc. Black rent. See Blackmail, 3. -- Forehand rent, rent which is paid in advance; foregift. -- Rent arrear, rent in arrears; unpaid rent. Blackstone. -- Rent charge (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; -- so called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the payment of it, Bouvier. -- Rent roll, a list or account of rents or income; a rental. -- Rent seck (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was made incident to rent seck by Statue 4 George II. c.
6. 7.-- Rent service (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by fealty or other corporeal service; -- so called from such service being incident to it. -- White rent, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to black rent.
7. 8.To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
8. 9.To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
9. 10.To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.