falcatura

falcatura , (one day’s) mowing service. b measure of meadow mown in one day. c1230 tempore ~e habebunt unum multonem qui circumdatus ab eis si evaserit remanebit domino (Cust. Wretham) Doc. Bec 116; 1270 idem r. c. de iij s. de ~a relaxata Ac. Beaulieu 59; 1297 de iij s. iiij d. de ~a relaxata per annum Ac. Cornw I 12; debet ad ~am et ad cariagium quantum pertinet ad tantam terram Reg. S. Aug. 111 (cf. ib.: falcuram); 1323 item debent xij ~as pro pratis falcandis IPM 82/7 m. 2.  b debet levare tres ~as feni (Cust. Bledlow) Doc. Bec 120.