Leasow

/ˈliːzəʊ/ · noun

Meaning

(now rare, dialectal, historical) (Green) land as opposed to flood or desert; a pasture..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now rare, dialectal, historical) (Green) land as opposed to flood or desert; a pasture.
2. (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To feed or pasture.

Example Sentences

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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• leasows
• lessow
• leasowe
• leasowing
• leasowed

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