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Definition of Pightle
1. a croft or small enclosure [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pightle
Literary usage of Pightle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Suffolk, and the Towns Near Its Borders by William White (1844)
"John Sheppard left two yearly rent-charges to this parish, viz., 40s. a-year out
of the Church pightle, for a dinner on Lady day, to be given to 20 poor ..."
2. The History of an East Anglian Soke: Studies in Original Documents by Christobel Mary Hoare Hood (1918)
"Grays Yard, Grays Yard Lands and pightle between the village and the sea; ...
Heath, Old, Heath pightle and South Repps Heath, all on the Trimingham and ..."
3. The History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, Called Bedford by Samuel Wells (1830)
"... corner of the former : by the lode west j and the load north - 3 1 0 Another
severall pightle ... and a triangled pightle south - - SOO Another severall ..."
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