mease

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.

   a mease of herrings

2. noun A mess, a mese: a meal.
3. noun A dwelling or messuage.
4. noun Obsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net).
5. verb To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.

Similar words

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