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reeans - strips of uncultivated land between dales or allotments ings - meadows, cow pastures intak - enclosure from fell or common garth - an enclosure, as stack g-, hemp g- butts - short riggs in fields of irregular shape parrock - a small pasture field lei - unploughed land; lea

outrake - a common outpasture meeda - a meadow past~ur - pasture orchet - orchard thwæt - a forest clearing braken plat or braken dæl - plot producing brackens allotted to a farmer tilth - arable (manured) land

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