Meaning of leasow | Babel Free

Definitions

(Green) land as opposed to flood or desert; a pasture.

archaic, dialectal, historical

Examples

“Reflexions in her Book, strike one as a Statue does among the tangled Thickets of the Leasowes […].”

“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; [...]”

“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.”

“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.”

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