1 gen 1664 anni - swath

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The space covered by a sweep of a mower’s scythe. 1642 <i>A goode Mower will ... take a broade lande and more att 4 sweathes and ... yow shall scarce perceive his sweath-balke</i>, Elmswell (DW34). It was used as a measure for a division of a meadow: 1348 ‘all her meadow in the great meadow of Walton, namely one swath (<i>swatha</i>) at <i>le nuhengthorne</i>, two swaths in <i>Lefall</i> and a share of a swath in <i>le Drihalges</i>’, Chevet (YRS106/28); 1664 <i>all those sixteene swaithes of meadowe-ground lyeing within the lordshippe of Cropton</i> (NRQS4/162).

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