commonage
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He grazed on the town commonage; besides grass, he never got anything to eat but an occasional handful of mealies.
From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
We came over a rolling down towards the commonage.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Cripps, Arthur Shearly
The deer were suffered to run loose upon their lands; and many oppressions were used with relation to the claim of commonage which the people had in most of the forests.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
His pony was only grazing on the town commonage hard by; he could have him brought in less than half an hour.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
In 1663, there was a “house called the Goat at Little Chelsea,” which, between that year and 1713, enjoyed the p. 95right of commonage for two cows and one heifer upon Chelsea Heath.
From A Walk from London to Fulham by Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William)
