leasow
/ˈliːzəʊ/
leasow noun: (Green) land as opposed to flood or desert; a pasture.
Noun
leasow (plural leasows)
- (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
- 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
Verb
leasow (third-person singular simple present leasows, present participle leasowing, simple past and past participle leasowed)
Examples of leasow in a sentence
- 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:
Forms of leasow
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | leasows |
| alternative form (obsolete) | lessow |
| alternative form (obsolete) | leasowe |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | leasows |
| present participle | leasowing |
| past participle | leasowed |
| past | leasowed |
Origin of leasow
From Middle English leesewe, lesewe, leswe, from Old English lǣs (“pasture”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāsu (“pasture”).
Questions about leasow
- What does leasow mean?
- Leasow means (Green) land as opposed to flood or desert; a pasture.
- How do you use leasow in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is leasow?
- Leasow can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce leasow?
- Leasow is pronounced /ˈliːzəʊ/.
- What is the plural of leasow?
- The plural of leasow is leasows.
Words near leasow in the dictionary
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