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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Ley-rig, n. Also: leye-. [OE. lǽᵹ-hrycg: cf. Ley a. Also in the later dial. as ley-, lee-, lea-rig.] A ‘rig’ or strip of land left untilled and under grass in a ploughed field. —1549 Compl. 42/32.
The scheiphyrdis vyuis … gadrit … meduart, vitht the quhilkis tha couurit the end of ane leye rig 1659 Melrose Reg. Rec. I. 234.
James Wallace … sues Patrick Lamb … for 40 s. Scots for the gres of one ley rig 1672 Inverness Presb. 27.
Together with sufficient grassing … with the tennents wherever they pasture except their leyrigges, and that for sex cows
