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foresheta

foresheta [ME fore + sheter = forward shooter] , headland, strip of ploughed land at the edge of a field (Oxon). Cf. M. Gelling The Place-names of Oxfordshire Cambridge 1954, II 446 s. v. forthshetere. 1399 hec pecia terre prioris vocatur Heraldespece et habet unam forschetam jacentem proxime juxta predictam meram Ambrosden II 193 (cf. (v. fimare 1a): 1279 quod non sit fortsetere fimata); hoc‥furlong’‥jacet inter le Gurdull‥et inter unam forschetam quam Hugo B. tenet Ib. 195; hoc furlong’ incipit cum una forescheta Ib. 197.

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