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leasow en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈliːzəʊ/

Etymology

From Middle English leesewe, lesewe, leswe, from Old English lǣs (“pasture”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāsu (“pasture”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic, dialectal, historical) (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:
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
leasowe alternative, obsolete lexicographic
leasows Number=Plur lexicographic
lessow alternative, obsolete lexicographic

leasow en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈliːzəʊ/

Etymology

From Middle English leesewe, lesewe, leswe, from Old English lǣs (“pasture”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāsu (“pasture”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic, dialectal, transitive) To feed or pasture.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
lessow alternative, obsolete lexicographic
leasows Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
leasowing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
leasowed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
leasowed Tense=Past lexicographic
leasowe alternative, obsolete lexicographic