leasow
Noun
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Noun
leasow (plural leasows)
- (now, rare, dialectal, historical) (Green) land as opposed to flood or desert; a pasture.
- 1826, Thomas Gill, The Technical repository:
- The oxen which are brought on in succession, run the first summer in the park, and in the leasows and temporary straw-yards in the winter; [...]
- 2012, Christopher Dyer, A Country Merchant, 1495-1520:
- Lords could create a leasow by fencing off part of their demesne, if it was held in a block rather than being scattered over the fields and intermingled with the land of tenants.
- 2013, Eric Kerridge, Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After:
- Imprimis we do present upon our oaths that one Gilbert Wheeler gentleman enclosed a leasow called the Hide containing 20 acres which was common about 10 years past with the fields there.
- 1826, Thomas Gill, The Technical repository:
leasow (leasows, present participle leasowing; past and past participle leasowed)
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