selionn.
/ˈsɛlɪən/ Historical and local.
1. A portion of land of indeterminate area comprising a ridge or narrow strip lying between two furrows formed in dividing an open field, a ‘narrow-land’.
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c1450 Godstow Reg. 215 xx. seylons & j. of hys arable londe.
c1460 Oseney Reg. 68 ij. sellions or buttes of lond to a wey to be made at northoseney.
1542 Conveyance in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 398 Foure selyons of lande arrable conteynyng two acres.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 5 b By the grant of a selion of land, a ridge of land which containeth no certainty, for some be greater and some lesser, doth pass.
1669 Will of R. Mayor in Blk. Bk. Dioc. Lichf. I. 87 Four lands or rudges or sillyons of arrable land.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. ix. 368 A croft..containing five selions or ridges of land.
1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 302 Two selions of land containing one acre, lying in a furlong called Foxholes.
1894 Times 19 May 7/3 The land is for the most part in open fields, cut up into numerous narrow strips, or ‘selions’ as they are locally termed, and cultivated by small farmers.
2. A furrow turned over by the plough.Apparently an isolated use.
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1877 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 69 No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion Shine.
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