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cony-garth
Forms: 5 connynge erthe, conyngherth, conyngerthe, Sc. cunnyngarth, 6 cony earth, 6–9 coney (conie, etc.) -garth.
[A corruption of ME. conyng-erthe, conig-erthe ‘cony earth’, in which the final g has been transferred to the second element, which has thus come to be identified with garth ‘yard, enclosure’.]
A rabbit-warren.
c1430Lydg. in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 26 With hem that fyrrettyth, robbe conyngherthys [v.r. conyngerys]. c1440Promp. Parv. 90 Connyngere, or connynge erthe, cunicularium. 1493in Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VII ibid. 90 For making of the conyngerthe pale. 1494Sc. Acts Jas. III (1814) 107 (Jam.) That na man..tak cunnyngis out of wtheris cunnyngarthis. 1530Palsgr. 208/1 Cony garthe, garenne. 1552Huloet, Conigare, or cony earth. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 352 The North downs towards the Tamis for the Conny-garthe. 1886J. K. Johnstone Isle of Axholme 31 The Coney Garth at Haxey, and Koning's Garth at Wroot. 1890E. Peacock (in letter), There is a field in this parish [Bottesford] called the Coney Garth. |