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Sweepage

Sweepage \Sweep"age\, n. The crop of hay got in a meadow. [Prov. Eng.]

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sweepage

n. 1 (context UK dialect English) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow. 2 (rfdef: English)

Usage examples of "sweepage".

Then there are all sorts of other rights, like bite of grass and fire-bote, hey-bote and house-bote, underwood, sweepage and so on, different from parish to parish but all strictly ruled by custom time out of mind and giving a man a place in the village and making it more like a right ship's company.