Mease
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mease is a noun meaning (UK, dialect, dated) A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
Meaning
(UK, dialect, dated) A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
More Meanings
- To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.
- Obsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net).
- (obsolete) A mess, a mese: a meal.
- (obsolete) A dwelling or messuage.
Example Sentences
a mease of herrings
I want my mease of milk when I go to my work.
At Portavogie a few mease of herring were landed in June by some twenty-five boats.
1628, July 15, was a Gild new erected by four young bachelors of the town, and kept at the college-house, of above twenty meases of persons, and the poor then well relieved.
Word Forms
- meases
- measing
- meased
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include measure, meter, mese, mesling, meck, measuration.
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