land-end Now dial.
A piece of ground at the end of a ‘land’ in a ploughed field. (See also quots. 1877, 1893.)
| 1555 Stanford Churchw. Acc., Antiquary XVII. 119/2 For Reping doune ye corne yt growyde at mens landds endds y⊇ wich was sooyd to farre upon the comon viij{supd}. 1610 Quarter Sess. Rec. in N.R. Record Soc. I. 202 (N.W. Linc. Gloss.) Tho. Skelton..tooke vj{supd} a daie..and a land end of grass besides, of Geo. Osborne of the same. 1624 Rental in Sheffield Gloss., Rich. Shirtclyffe had 8 land ends at will vijs. 1870 in E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. III. xv. 240 An' the eller tree blossoms like snaw was besprent On the land ends 'at ligs by the side o' the Trent. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss., Land-ends, (1) small portions of cultivated land between the Trent bank and the road, at the ends of the lands in the open fields, more commonly called groves. 1893 Northumbld. Gloss., Landin, Land-end, the end of a ridge or of a furrow in ploughing, or of a drill in drilling..where it meets the heedrig. 1899 Dickinson & Prevost Cumberld. Gloss., Heedlin'... Land end, head rig or head⁓land, or those butts in a ploughed field which lie at right angles to the general direction of the others. |