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fossatus

1 fossatus v. fossatum
2 fossatus [cf. TLL, which records~uas ablative of o-stemfossatus, ~um] 1 the action of digging. intellexit vir prudens ultro oblatum, quem alto ~u et laborioso quaesitu formidaverat vix inveniendum Gosc. Transl. Aug. 17D. 2 ditch, moat. 1354 pro reparacione et mundacione ~us juxta Turrim Londoniarum LBLond. G p. 27. 3 dike, ditch and bank, as fence or field-boundary. c1160 terram ‥ a ~u Roberti filii Willelmi usque ad cricam Danelaw 105; c1170 partem bosci ‥ ~u clausum (sic) FormA 245.

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