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hecca, ~um [ME heche, hegge < AS hecg; cf. 1 haia, hesa] , hedge, fence, palisade; b (for protecting goods on quay). c (also w. cadens) moveable palisade on battlements. c1250 viam ‥ que extendit se ab ~a ‥ monachorum ‥ usque ad villam de Stert Cart. Wardon f. 55 (cf. ib.: a palo haie ‥ parci ab ~o ‥ de Stert); 1251 habuerunt communam pasture usque in parcum de Brikestok, de Rohegges, sicut se extendit per unam trenchiam que vocatur Balledstoured, usque ad ~am de Brikestok IMisc 5/24 (Northants) ; 1270 in beracaria relevenda, emendenda [sic] et cooperienda et in xxxj heckis faciendis et in maeremio ad eadem (Yorks) MinAc 1078/12 r. 1; s1293 factum est novum hechium in campo de Chalgrave Ann. Dunstable 377; 1315 quod ‥ possint libere ‥ habere suum hechium in omnibus terris suis in waretto in camp’ de Watford’ AncD A 8228; 1337 tenentes de gracia habebunt totum pratum partibile, ‥ et totum hechium Cart. Osney IV 322.  b a1216 (v. cleta 1d).  c 1313 carpentariis operantibus ‥ circa heckas cadentes ordinandas et ponendas infra batillamenta magne turris KR Ac 468/20 f. 3; 1313 ad imponendas ‥ hekkas Ib. (v. entaliator).

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