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† day math, day's math Obs.
A day's mowing; the extent of meadow-land mown by a man in one day; cf. day-work 2.
1669Will of R. Mayor in Lichfield Merc. (1889) 23 Aug. 8/1 Alsoe all that parcell of meadow grounds, contayninge one acre or dayes math of ground for her naturall life. And after her deceyse, the above three acres or daye's workes of arrable land, and one day-math of meadow ground to my daughter, Ursula Mayor. 1804Duncumb Herefordsh. I. Gloss. (App.), Day's math, is..about a statute acre; in other words, it is that quantity of grass usually mown by one man in one day, for the purpose of making hay. 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. IV. 61. |