† innam, -e local. Obs.
Also 7 innom, -e.
[f. in adv. + ON. -nám a taking (in compounds as land-, nes-, viðrnám), f. nema to take; cf. OE. nám seizure of property as a pledge, f. niman to take, nim n.1]
A piece of ground taken in or inclosed; an intake.
| [1226 Lincoln Eyre (Spelman), Innama non capiantur nisi per communem assensum. c 1250 Ceo est Hosebonderie (in W. of Henley's Husb. 1890, 66), E si liad inhom il deit ver quele coture il prent en le inhom. 1344 Coucher Bk. Selby (Yorksh. Rec. Soc.) II. 376 Breve villatæ de Keleby tangens innames de Staling[burgh]. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 20 He shall..sow his Oats, either vpon the Innams, which is lande sowne the yeare before, or on the tilth or fallow ground prepared for the purpose. [a 1626 Charter in spelman Arch. Gloss. 383/1 Unum croftum et duas innonias aut inclausuras, vocatas Inholmes.] 1662 Dugdale Hist. Imbank. & Drain. (1772) 219 The..causey from the head thereof towards Kesteven, to the Innome of Doningtone. |
b. Comb., as innom-barley.
| 1674–91 Ray N.C. Words 39 Innom-Barley, such Barley as is sown the second crop after the Grownd is fallowed. |