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.
| c 1430 Lydg. in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 26 With hem that fyrrettyth, robbe conyngherthys [v.r. conyngerys]. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 90 Connyngere, or connynge erthe, cunicularium. 1493 in Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VII ibid. 90 For making of the conyngerthe pale. 1494 Sc. Acts Jas. III (1814) 107 (Jam.) That na man..tak cunnyngis out of wtheris cunnyngarthis. 1530 Palsgr. 208/1 Cony garthe, garenne. 1552 Huloet, Conigare, or cony earth. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 352 The North downs towards the Tamis for the Conny-garthe. 1886 J. K. Johnstone Isle of Axholme 31 The Coney Garth at Haxey, and Koning's Garth at Wroot. 1890 E. Peacock (in letter), There is a field in this parish [Bottesford] called the Coney Garth. |