leasow

plural leasows · alternative obsolete lessow · alternative obsolete leasowe

1. archaicdialectalhistorical(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 […].

   1803 July 25, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana

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   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; [...]

   1826, Thomas Gill, The Technical repository

   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.

   2012, Christopher Dyer, A Country Merchant, 1495-1520

   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.

   2013, Eric Kerridge, Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After

present singular third person leasows · participle present leasowing · participle past leasowed · past leasowed · alternative obsolete lessow · alternative obsolete leasowe

1. archaicdialectaltransitiveTo feed or pasture.