noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   (Green) land as opposed to flood or desert; a pasture. archaic, dialectal, historical

   "Reflexions in her Book, strike one as a Statue does among the tangled Thickets of the Leasowes […]."

Verb

1. 1
   To feed or pasture. archaic, dialectal, transitive

Synonyms

All synonyms

pasturepasture

Example

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"Reflexions in her Book, strike one as a Statue does among the tangled Thickets of the Leasowes […]."

Etymology

From Middle English leesewe, lesewe, leswe, from Old English lǣs (“pasture”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāsu (“pasture”).

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