heafn.

Etymology: Modification of heft, haft n.², haft v.³

northern dialect.

Accustomed pasture-ground (of sheep).

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heafc1525

haft1796

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture

heafc1525

sheep-gate1535

herdwick1537

fold-course1538

wether gang1561

sheep-walk1586

sheep's course1623

sheep-weald1634

sheep-rake1653

sleighta1697

sheep-leasea1722

sheep-sleighta1722

hirsel1822

sheep-run1826

sheep-heaf1844

shepherd land1892

heft1960

c1525 Surv. St. Bees Priory in Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum (1821) III. 579/1 A pasture for shepe upon the morez or hefe called Sandwith Marshe.

1852 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 13 ii. 265 (Cumberland) Some shepherds are at the daily pains of taking a few stones of hay..five or six miles to their sheep-heaf, and thus induce the sheep to keep their heaf in all weathers.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Aug. 4/1 Some of the largest farms have most extensive ‘heafs’, and graze from two to four thousand sheep.

1894 R. S. Ferguson Hist. Westmorland xviii. 290 A Herdwick sheep is very much attached to its own ‘heaf’, or that part of the fell where it generally goes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	heaf
释义	heafn. Etymology: Modification of heft, haft n.², haft v.³ northern dialect. Accustomed pasture-ground (of sheep). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > accustomed pasture heafc1525 haft1796 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture heafc1525 sheep-gate1535 herdwick1537 fold-course1538 wether gang1561 sheep-walk1586 sheep's course1623 sheep-weald1634 sheep-rake1653 sleighta1697 sheep-leasea1722 sheep-sleighta1722 hirsel1822 sheep-run1826 sheep-heaf1844 shepherd land1892 heft1960 c1525 Surv. St. Bees Priory in Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum (1821) III. 579/1 A pasture for shepe upon the morez or hefe called Sandwith Marshe. 1852 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 13 ii. 265 (Cumberland) Some shepherds are at the daily pains of taking a few stones of hay..five or six miles to their sheep-heaf, and thus induce the sheep to keep their heaf in all weathers. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Aug. 4/1 Some of the largest farms have most extensive ‘heafs’, and graze from two to four thousand sheep. 1894 R. S. Ferguson Hist. Westmorland xviii. 290 A Herdwick sheep is very much attached to its own ‘heaf’, or that part of the fell where it generally goes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1525
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