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gærs-tún

  • noun [ masculine ]
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gærs-tún, es; m.
A grass-enclosure, a meadow; prātum, pascuum : hence GERSTON, now used in Surrey and Sussex, in the same sense
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  • Be ceorles gærstúne : gif ceorlas gærstún hæbben gemǽnne, oððe óðer gedálland to týnanne

    of a churl's meadow : if churls have a common meadow or other partible land to fence,

    • L. In. 42
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    • Th. i. 128, 5.
Prātum quod Saxŏnĭce Garstún appellātur,
  • Cod. Dipl. 350
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  • A. D. 930
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  • Kmbl. ii. 166, 6 : Cod. Dipl. Apndx. 461
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  • A. D. 956
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  • Kmbl. iii. 449, 19.
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  • gærs-tún, n.