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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1549, 1632-1691
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Grassing, vbl. n. Also: grasseing, grassine. [f. Grass v.; cf. Gressing.]
1. Pasturing, providing pasturage. 1649 Edinburgh Testaments LXIV. 243.
For grassing of scheip v lib. xiij s. 1663 Melrose Reg. Rec. II. 70.
[They had paid him] be the grasseing of lambes to him 1680 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. VI. 390.
A piece of ground belonging to the complainer for grasseing 1691 Corshill Baron Ct. 186.
Patrick Stivensone … persued Robert Wacker … for the grassine of seven swimes … of sheep
2. Land used for grazing; pasture-land. ?1549 Monro W. Isles 24.
Ila, … full of natural grassing 1632 Inverness Presb. 25.
They went & measured & marched the gleib and grassing thereof 1656 Marischal Coll. Rec. I. 215.
The scheillingis, grassingis, and pasturage usit and wount 1669 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III. 107.
He hath in a most oppresseing maner possest himself in a grasseing of the townes called Castleden 1672 Inverness Presb. 27.
Together with sufficient grassing and pasturage … wherever they pasture
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