beast-gate
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]beast-gate (plural beast-gates)
- (obsolete) A meadow.
- 1585, John Blagrave, chapter X, in The Mathematical Iewel, London: […] Walter Venge, page 211:
- Alſo, you are to queſtion him concerning his Paſtures, as well thoſe in ſeuerall, as the Paſtures in common, what every Beaſt-gate is worth by the yeare in euery of them ſeuerally; whereof you may otherwiſe alſo informe your ſelfe,leſt you be deceiued.
Further reading
[edit]- “beast-gate, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
