Gār-æcer

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gār-æcer

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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gār-æcer
m. A strip of land tapering at one end, not having parallel sides like the ordinary acre-strip,

Related words: Seebohm, Vill. Comm. , s. v. gored acres :-- On ǣnne gāran; donne of dan gāran on ānne gāræcer; dæt andlanges dǣre fyrh tō ānum andheáfdum . . . danon west on ānne gōran; andlanges dǣre fyrh . . . on āne gāræcer . . . and se gāræcer in on dæt land . . . tō twām gāræcer[urn] and dā gāræceras in on dæt land, C. D. v. 153, 19-154, I. gar-æcer

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