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Definition of Meteyards
1. meteyard [n] - See also: meteyard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meteyards
Literary usage of Meteyards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chronicles of Newgate by Arthur Griffiths (1884)
"One was that committed by the meteyards, mother and daughter, upon an apprentice
girl ; the other that of Elizabeth Brownrigg, also on an apprentice. ..."
2. The History of the Worshipful Company of the Drapers of London: Preceded by by Arthur Henry Johnson (1914)
"... rioters to Newgate.1 In 1447 the Taylors retaliated by disputing the Drapers'
claim to search the houses of Taylors for meteyards and woollen cloths. ..."
3. Publications by Hampshire Record Society, Winchester, Winchester Hampshire Record Society, American peace society, Algernon Sidney Crapsey, Ernest Howard Crosby, W. Evans Darby, John Hyde De Forest, Charles Edward Jefferson, Augustine Jones, Mrs. L. J. Mead, J. H. Ral (1889)
"... monastery in length, and two meteyards broad where the water first falls in;
and where the land is least broad there, it shall be eighteen feet broad. ..."
4. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1876)
"... and the loud laugh (yes! ye stilted meteyards and thou crabbed Carlyle) and
the murmur of joyous voices near betokening a current of life flowing freely ..."
5. Diplomatarium Anglicum Aevi Saxonici: A Collection of English Charters, from by BENJAMIN. THORPE (1865)
"... monastery in length, and two meteyards broad, where the water first falls in :
and where the land is narrowest, there it shall be eighteen feet broad. ..."
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