slang

1) A thin strip of land.

A privately published account of the Woodsome estate quotes the instructions given to Jonathan Senior, a woodman: 1806 The Range, Farnley Tyas – a slang of land at top of Roberts Mill Farm, about 2 acres, should be thickened with oak and ash.

places Farnley Tyas
dates 1806

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