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▪ I. wong Obs. exc. in place-names. Also wang. [OE. wang, wong = OS. wang, OHG. wang, only in holzwangâ ‘campi nemorei’ and in place-names, (G. dial. wang mountain slope), ON. vangr (Sw. dial. vång, Da. vang), Goth. waggs παράδεισος. (See wang1.)] A plain, field; a piece of meadow land; spec. a portion of unenclosed land under the open-field system: now surviving locally in the proper designations of certain fields or common lands.
Beowulf 2242 Beorh ealᵹearo wunode on wonge wæteryðum neah. 971Blickl. Hom. 105 Seoþþan heofonas tohlidon, & seo hea miht on þysne wang astaᵹ. a1000Phœnix 13 Þæt is wynsum wong. c1300Havelok 1444 Borwes, tunes, wodes and wonges. 13..in Spelman Gloss. Arch. (1664), Tres acræ terræ jacentes in lez wongs. 1371in Cal. Close Rolls 351 [A third part of a furlong called the] Londmedewong..[a third part of a furlong called] Londwong. c1440Promp. Parv. 532/1 Wonge of londe, territorium. 1525in Lincoln Wills (Linc. Rec. Soc. V) I. 157, ij acres landes lying in burgh callyd schothorne wang. 1528Ibid. II. 97 A certeyn lande callyd Bawdwynwang. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Wong, an agricultural division or district of some uninclosed parishes... In the parish of Horningtoft, in Norfolk, for instance, there is the How-wong, q.d. the wong by the hill. 1856N. & Q. 2nd Ser. II. 79 At Tickhill [Yorks] are lands, all or mostly meadow, called the North Wongs, South Wongs, Saffron Wongs, and Church Wongs. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., At Horncastle there is a piece of common land near the town called The Wong. ▪ II. wong obs. form of wang1, cheek. |