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sweepage|ˈswiːpɪdʒ|
Also 7 swepage.
[f. sweep v. + -age.]
1. = sweeping vbl. n. 2, 2 b.
1606S. Gardiner Bk. Angling 149 The veriest mennow among men, the salt and sweepage of the court, dare..contriue the death of the Prince of the court.
2. a. spec. ‘The Crop of Hay got in a Meadow’ (Cowell Interpr., 1672, s.v. Swepage): cf. sweep n. 18; gen. what is mown. b. dial. (See quot. 1895.)
1628Coke On Litt. i. i. §i. 4 b, He shall haue the vesture of the land, (that is) the corne, grasse, vnderwood, swepage, and the like. 1857Wright Dict. Obs. & Prov. Engl., Swepage, the rough grass in a meadow which cattle will not eat, and which has to be mown or swept off. 1895E. Anglian Gloss., Sweepage, the right of cutting faggots, grass, &c., on a several or common allotment. 1910Encycl. Brit. VI. 782/1 Sweepage (i.e. everything which falls to the sweep of the scythe). |