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swathe

SWATHE
, Quantum unus sector per diem secare potest de prato, idem quod Falcata prati : ab Anglo-Sax. swaðe, scissio rasura. Kennettus in Antiquit. Ambrosd. ad ann. 1325. pag. 399 : Duæ Swathes dicti prati jacent ut sequitur, etc. Rursum pag. 400 : Dimidia roda et dimidia Swathe apud Shortedolemede... et duæ Swathes apud Mathames. Charta apud Madox in Formul. Anglic. pag. 202 : Dedimus illustrissimo principi Edwardo Regi et dom. Simoni de Sidburg Archiep. Cantuariensi septem mesuagia, unam schopam, 40. acras terræ et novem Swathes prati. Vide Sectura prati in Secare 2.

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