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Town-end. World English Historical Dictionary

Town-end. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Town-end Now dial. Also town’s end. The end of the main street of a town or village; one of the extremities of a town.

1 c. 1440.  Alphabet of Tales, 330. Þe fflawme at had burnyd all þe town-end … sesid.

2 1591.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., IV. 625. Quha … raid away with him oute at the toun end of Sanctandrois.

3 1818.  Scott, Hrt. Midl., xxxi[i]. She’s fast in the stocks at Barkston town-end.

4 1886.  S. W. Linc. Gloss., s.v., There’s a pinfold at the town-end.

5 1421.  Coventry Leet Bk., 30. Ne þat no man … lay no dong at the townsend in no placys, but without the stakes … beyond the Frer gate.

6 1472.  Paston Lett., III. 71. I have begonne to felle asshe at the townes ende.

7 1621.  Sanderson, Serm. 1 Cor. vi. 24 § 21. Our idle sturdy rogues, and vagrant towns-end beggars.

8 1760–72.  H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), IV. 55. Yonder church-yard below the town’s end.

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