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stichia [ME stiche], ridge of (ploughed or cultivated) land, ‘stitch’. c1222 [two acres and one stych] stugcham [of land] Cart. Boxgrove 68 (cf. ib. 68n. 2: stugeham ‥ stucham ‥ stucgham); 1229 concessit ‥ unam rodam que vocatur Hevedstiche ‥ et unam estucham terre juxta Sumerstretam ‥ et unam estucham juxta boscum Fines Suss 238; 1234 item brechgavel quod solvitur ad festum S. Mich. ‥ Willelmus faber pro j stihche apud Lottewlle, vj d. Cust. Glast. 55; 1340 ij bovarii habebunt j sthucche terre arrabilis ‥ j sticche terre arrabilis RentSurv. R 700; 1345 [an acre in the common meadow of Esterewamberg, and ‥ two stitches] stychyas [of meadow there to the west of ‘la Haywardesgore’] CatAncD VI C 5939; 1354 estichiam terre (Carisbrooke Deeds) MS BL Egerton 3667.

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