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esseware, ~eare [cf. AN essiwer, OF essavier, essevier < exaquare] 1 to drain, lead water from: a (pond); b (marsh or land). V. et. essewerare, exaquare. a 1263 vivarium regis de B., quod rex nuper per eos ~iari precepit, sine dilacione mundari faciant Cl 215; 1299 pro wayer’ sewand’ MinAc 1079/16 r. 2.  b 1248 licebit ‥ assewiare mariscum suum ‥ usque per medium guttere ‥ de Babbingeflet Fines Suss 499; 1271 in xlviij perticatis fossat’ ‥ pro pastura comitisse assueanda MinAc 1078/13 r. 1d.; 1284 in x acris terre arrandis, herciendis, et reonandis ad ~iandum eandem terram Ib. 1027/17 r. 2; 1306 terre brocales, si fuerint competenter assewiate, valebit †qualibet [l. quelibet] acra per annum x d. Cust. Battle 18; 1327 mariscum ‥ assewiatum (v. 1 cultura 1a); 1359 guttera ‥ debet ‥ reparari ‥ per omnes tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que sewantur ad eandem Pub. Works I 251; 1373 quedam magna sewera que vocatur Lambwath’, per quam diverse ville assuantur Ib. II 346; 1382 ubi cursus aque esse solebat ‥ pro terris adjacentibus seweandis Pat 313 m. 37d.; 1405 ad fossata ‥ reparanda et cum indigerit [sic] asseuanda Doc. Bev. 16. 2 to flood (meadow). 1231 singulis annis inter Ascensionem Domini et Nativitatem [S. Johannis] Baptiste potest ‥ scindere stagnum [molendini] ad prata sua essewyenda in loco certo de profunditate duorum pedum CurR XIV 1094.

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