Plough-land

  • 31under the plough — under the ˈplough idiom (BrE, formal) (of land) used for growing crops, not for keeping animals on Syn: ↑arable Main entry: ↑ …

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  • 32ploughland — plough·land …

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  • 33Carucate — 1) A measurement of land, equal to a hide (used in Danelaw) 2) Danish equivalent of a hide. The land ploughed by eight oxen; actual area varied locally and like the hide could be reassessed. (Wood, Michael. Domesday: A Search for the Roots of… …

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  • 34Skerton — Origin of the name The history of Skerton begins in Saxon times, a village having existed on the North bank of the River Lune since time immemorial. First reliably recorded in the Domesday book as being, Schertune ; literally Scar Town .Skerton… …

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  • 35ploughland — noun arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops • Syn: ↑cultivated land, ↑farmland, ↑plowland, ↑tilled land, ↑tillage, ↑tilth • Derivationally related forms: ↑till ( …

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  • 36æcer — m ( es/ as) 1. a field, land, what is sown, sown land, cultivated land; 2. a definite quantitiy of land, in Anglo Saxon times, a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, an acre, (4840 square yards), a certain quantity of land, strip of plough land; 3 …

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  • 37Hubert Walter — Infobox Archbishop of Canterbury Full name = Hubert Walter birth name = consecration = 29 May 1193 began = 7 November 1193 term end = 13 July 1205 predecessor = Reginald Fitz Jocelin successor = John de Gray birth date = c. 1160 death date = 12… …

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  • 38Hatcham — was a manor and later chapelry in what is now London, England. [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry page.jsp?text id=770730 word=NULL John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870 72)] ] Now known as New Cross …

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  • 39Hedge laying — is a country skill, typically found in the United Kingdom and Ireland, which, through the creation and maintenance of hedges, achieves the following:* the formation of livestock proof barriers; * the rejuvenation of existing hedgerows by… …

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  • 40carucate — n. Plough land, hide land. [As much land as a team can plough in the year.] …

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