sweepage
(ˈswiːpɪdʒ)
Also 7 swepage.
[f. sweep v. + -age.]
1. = sweeping vbl. n. 2, 2 b.
| 1606 S. 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.)
| 1628 Coke 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. 1857 Wright 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. 1895 E. Anglian Gloss., Sweepage, the right of cutting faggots, grass, &c., on a several or common allotment. 1910 Encycl. Brit. VI. 782/1 Sweepage (i.e. everything which falls to the sweep of the scythe). |