town mail

noun

A piece of green pasturage attached to a house.

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Meanings

nountown mail (plural town mails)

plural town mails

  1. ShetlandA piece of green pasturage attached to a house.

    When they want beef or mutton on any festal occasion, they betake themselves to the Shetlanders' scatholds or townmails, and with elf-arrows bring down their game.

    1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 262
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APA

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Chicago

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