leasow
/ˈliːzəʊ/noun
Middle School
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; [...]”
“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.”
From Middle English leesewe, lesewe, leswe, from Old English lǣs (“pasture”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāsu (“pasture”).
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