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heaf north. dial.
[Modification of heft, haft, n.2, v.3]
Accustomed pasture-ground (of sheep).
c1525Survey St. Bees Priory in Monast. Angl. (1821) III. 579/1 A pasture for shepe upon the morez or hefe called Sandwith Marshe. 1852Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIII. ii. 265 (Cumberland) Some shepherds are at the daily pains of taking a few stones of hay..five or six miles to their sheep-heaf, and thus induce the sheep to keep their heaf in all weathers. 1886Pall Mall G. 9 Aug. 4/1 Some of the largest farms have most extensive ‘heafs’, and graze from two to four thousand sheep. 1894R. S. Ferguson Hist. Westmld. xviii. 290 A Herdwick sheep is very much attached to its own ‘heaf’, or that part of the fell where it generally goes. |