greave

1) A regional word for a small wood, similar in meaning to ‘grove’ which was not used in Yorkshire.

1527 Sir Godfrey Foljambe of Walton … hath bargaigned & solde unto the said Richard Beaumont two greafes of wodde that oon called the olerhede otherwise holroide and that other Frere Parke, Denby in Kirkheaton

1638 the two greaves lying on the upper side of the house, Lepton.

dates 1527 1638

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