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town-end Now dial.
Also town's end.
The end of the main street of a town or village; one of the extremities of a town.
c1440Alphabet of Tales 330 Þe fflawme at had burnyd all þe town-end..sesid. 1591Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 625 Quha..raid away with him oute at the toun end of Sanctandrois. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxi[i], She's fast in the stocks at Barkston town-end. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., There's a pinfold at the town-end.
1421Coventry Leet Bk. 30 Ne þat no man..lay no dong at the townsend in no placys, but without the stakes..beyond the Frer gate. 1472Paston Lett. III. 71, I have begonne to felle asshe at the townes ende. 1621Sanderson Serm. 1 Cor. vii. 24 §21 Our idle sturdy rogues, and vagrant towns-end beggars. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 55 Yonder church-yard below the town's end. |