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gneeve Anglo-Irish.|gniːv| Also 8 gineve. [a. Ir. gniomh work, act. The term is said to be still in use in the S. of Ireland.] The twelfth part of a ploughland.
1638Earl of Cork Diary in Lismore Papers Ser. i. (1886) V. 50 Paid..for the purchace of 4 gneeves of land. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. 372 As to their town-lands, plough-lands, colps, gneeves..they are all at this day become unequal both in quantity and value, having been made upon grounds which are now obsolete and antiquated. 1780A. Young Tour Irel. II. 85 Land is let by the plough land and gineve, 12 gineves to the plough land. |