town mail
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]town mail (plural town mails)
- (Shetland) A piece of green pasturage attached to a house.
- 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 262:
- When they want beef or mutton on any festal occasion, they betake themselves to the Shetlanders' scatholds or townmails, and with elf-arrows bring down their game.