Sunday, May 25th, 2008

"Intake"

Sunday, May 25th, 2008 11:03 am
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My school had a playing field on-site, but sometimes we would use another field, one of a series of several divided from the Town Moor by the Great North Road, known as the Intake. I tried yesterday looking up this sense of this word in my dictionaries; the Collins Concise didn't have it, but the first edition OED did:
Intake, sb.
2. (Chiefly north. dial.) A piece of land taken in from a moorland, common, etc; an inclosure.
I suspect of my readers, only [livejournal.com profile] bluepork and [livejournal.com profile] compilerbitch will be familiar with this usage...

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