mease.
A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
Meaning & usage
A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
Where this word comes from
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.
A mess, a mese: a meal.
Where this word comes from
Variant of mess / mese.
A dwelling or messuage.
Where this word comes from
Presumably related to messuage.
To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.
Where this word comes from
From mesh?
Obsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net).
Where this word comes from
From mesh?
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