Gærs-tún

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gærs-tún

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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gærs-tún
m. A grass-enclosure, a meadow; prātum, pascuum : hence GERSTON, now used in Surrey and Sussex, in the same sense :-- Be ceorles gærstúne : gif ceorlas gærstún hæbben gemǽnne, oððe óðer gedálland to týnanne of a churl's meadow : if churls have a common meadow or other partible land to fence, L. In. 42; Th. i. 128, 5. Prātum quod Saxŏnĭce Garstún appellātur, Cod. Dipl. 350; A. D. 930; Kmbl. ii. 166, 6 : Cod. Dipl. Apndx. 461; A. D. 956; Kmbl. iii. 449, 19. gærs-tun
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