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leasow
/ˈliːzəʊ/
noun 1verb 1
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2VERB + LEASOW
create
PREP.
off
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noun
1
(Green) land as opposed to flood or desert; a pasture.
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; [...]
verb
1
To feed or pasture.
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Reflexions in her Book, strike one as a Statue does among the tangled Thickets of the Leasowes […].
Wiktionary02
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; [...]
Wiktionary03
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.
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