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demath
dial. var. of day-math.
1559Lanc. Wills III. 125 One demathe of hey. 1820Wilbraham Gloss. Dial. Chesh., Demath, generally used for a statute acre, but erroneously so, for it is properly one-half of a Cheshire acre..the Demath bears [the proportion] of 32 to 301/4 to the statute acre. 1887Darlington South Chesh. Gloss. s.v., We speak of a ‘five-demath’ or a ‘seven-demath field’. |