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OE Bounds (Sawyer 879) in P. H. Sawyer Charters of Burton Abbey (1979) 43 Swa forð andlangas þæs broces forð þæt hit cymð to hryxies mæne weig.

lOE Bounds (Sawyer 444) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 444 Of langan leage to mænan leage, of menan leage, to wines heafdan.

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 179 (MED) Al þat hie bi ben, hie hauen of here [sc. underlings] mene swinche.

c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 32 (MED) Sei us nu hwuch blisse is to alle iliche meane.

c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 277 (MED) Þa ilke þinges..beon to alle men o liue iliche meane.

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) xiii. 59 Þai hald a lawe in meen betwene vs and þe Grekez.

a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) No. 132 A mein pot plaid never even.

1674 Forbes Baron Court Bk. in Publ. Sc. Hist. Soc. (1919) 2nd Ser. 19 297 In speciall for bigging of keill ȝaird dykis quhar they are in mein dykis and fold dyk.

1730 P. Walkden Diary 20 Jan. (1866) (modernized text) 94 That we would go mean at ploughing.

1756 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. (at cited word) The mean Gavel betwixt the contending Parties.

1876 A. Laing Lindores Abbey 301 The cottar-folk [in the late 18th cent.], who were unable to have a whole web of their own, joined together for a warp, and each had their own weft woven on it. This was called a mein, or common web.

1900 W. Dickinson & E. W. Prevost Gloss. Dial. Cumberland 380/1 At times it is only a part of a field that is in mean, it is then marked off from the rest by meerstones..or by reans.