† ˈopen-ˌtide Obs.
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| c 1440 Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 472 This potage may be made in Lenten, and also in opentyde, on this same manere, withouten eyren. Ibid., Appeluns for a Lorde, in Opyntide. a 1700 Kennett in MS. Lansd. 1033 (Halliwell) The time between Epiphany and Ash-Wednesday, wherein marriages were publicly solemnized, was on that account formerly called open-tide; but now in Oxfordshire and several other parts, the time after harvest, while the common fields are free and open to all manner of stock, is called open-tide. 1744 Jacob Law Dict., Open-tide, i.e. when Corn is carried out of the Common Fields. |