mease
Meanings
Plural: meases
Noun
- A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
- A mess, a mese: a meal.
- A dwelling or messuage.
- Obsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net).
Verb
- To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.
Origin / Etymology
The English Dialect Dictionary suggests Old Norse meiss (“wooden box, as would be used for counting fish”) as a source; The Century Dictionary suggests that the term comes via Old French from a Latin word *mesa (“barrel”). One can also compare German Mass (“measure”) and indeed measure itself.
Scrabble Score: 7
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Words With Friends Score: 0
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