▪ I. wong Obs. exc. in place-names.
Also wang.
[OE. wang, wong = OS. wang, OHG. wang, only in holzwangâ ‘campi nemorei’ and in place-names, (G. dial. wang mountain slope), ON. vangr (Sw. dial. vång, Da. vang), Goth. waggs παράδεισος. (See wang1.)]
A plain, field; a piece of meadow land; spec. a portion of unenclosed land under the open-field system: now surviving locally in the proper designations of certain fields or common lands.
| Beowulf 2242 Beorh ealᵹearo wunode on wonge wæteryðum neah. 971 Blickl. Hom. 105 Seoþþan heofonas tohlidon, & seo hea miht on þysne wang astaᵹ. a 1000 Phœnix 13 Þæt is wynsum wong. c 1300 Havelok 1444 Borwes, tunes, wodes and wonges. ? 13.. in Spelman Gloss. Arch. (1664), Tres acræ terræ jacentes in lez wongs. 1371 in Cal. Close Rolls 351 [A third part of a furlong called the] Londmedewong..[a third part of a furlong called] Londwong. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 532/1 Wonge of londe, territorium. 1525 in Lincoln Wills (Linc. Rec. Soc. V) I. 157, ij acres landes lying in burgh callyd schothorne wang. 1528 Ibid. II. 97 A certeyn lande callyd Bawdwynwang. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Wong, an agricultural division or district of some uninclosed parishes... In the parish of Horningtoft, in Norfolk, for instance, there is the How-wong, q.d. the wong by the hill. 1856 N. & Q. 2nd Ser. II. 79 At Tickhill [Yorks] are lands, all or mostly meadow, called the North Wongs, South Wongs, Saffron Wongs, and Church Wongs. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., At Horncastle there is a piece of common land near the town called The Wong. |
▪ II. wong
obs. form of wang1, cheek.