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1 mera [ME mere < AS mere] , mere, pool, lake (in place-name or surname). 1169 homines de ~a reddunt compotum Pipe 70; 1198 Ailmarus de ~a r. c. de xviij d. pro falso clamore Pipe 121.
2 mera [ME mere < AS mæ re] 1 boundary, mere. c1220 in longa cultura ‥ que abutissat super ~am que est inter campos Linc’ et campos de Gretwell’ Reg. Ant. Linc. IV 76; 1399 jacet una viridis ~a, et in fine inferiore ipsius ~e descendit quidem sulcus ‥ et predicta ~a et sulcus dividunt campos de Burncester, Buryend, et de Bygenhull Ambrosden II 188. 2 space enclosed by boundary, measure of land. 1389 dim. acra jacet ibidem ultima campi inter dominicam ~am ex una parte et liberam terram Willelmi Byfeld ex altera Ambrosden II 197. 3 part, portion; a (of space); b (of time); c (of abstr.). a 1287 tercia pars quarte partis unius ~e ‥ de grova Ricardi IMisc 46.17.  b in ~a noctis diem clausit W. Malm. Glast. 79.  c malorum mere sunt duo contraria / que verum abigunt ab omni curia Walt. Wimb. Sim. 31.
3 mera v. 1 merus

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