town mail

English

Noun

town mail (plural town mails)

  1. (Shetland) A piece of green pasturage attached to a house.
    • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 262:
      When they want beef or mutton on any festal occasion, they betake themselves to the Shetlanders' scatkolds or townmails, and with elf-arrows bring down their game.
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