Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ridge of land rising between two furrows: sometimes applied to the half-acre strips in the open-field system, which were separated by such ridges.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A
mediaeval open strip of land or small field used for growing crops
Etymologies
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Old French seillon a measure of land, French sillon a ridge, furrow, Latin selio a measure of land.
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Western Europe selion western-aristocracy: Egeskov Castle, Funen, Denmark.
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furrow divide?
July 9, 2012
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selionows
July 10, 2012