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denn|dɛn|
[OE. (Kent) denn woodland pasture; possibly the same word as OE. denn habitation of a wild beast (den n.1); cf. MDu. dann forest, haunt of wild beasts.
An OE. word, revived by place-name scholars, which survives chiefly in place-names (see A. H. Smith, Eng. Place-Name Elements (1956) I. 129), as Halden, Tenterden, both in Kent.]
A woodland pasture, esp. for swine.
1936E. Ekwall Conc. Oxf. Dict. Eng. Place-Names p. xv, Originally the denns belonged to the various lathes and were often situated far from the district to which they belonged. 1948L. D. Stamp Land of Brit. iii. 46 The upland settlements had rights of feeding swine in sections or ‘denns’ of the great Wealden oak forests, hence such names as Tenterden and Biddenden. |