Land-brǽce

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - land-brǽce

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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land-brǽce
m. Breaking up or ploughing of [fallow] land :-- Landbrǽce proscissio, Ælfc. Gl. 1; Som. 55, 20; Wrt. Voc. 15, 20. [Cf. O. H. Ger. bráhha aratio prima; bráhhón proscindere, Grff. iii. 268: Ger. brachen to plough a field after it has been lying fallow.] land-bræce
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