pightle

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noun

Plural noun:

pightlespiddlepighellpighillpightalpightelpightellpiclepiklepinglepyclepyghtle

1.
(archaic, dialectal)(archaic, dialect) A small piece of enclosed land, often by a hedge. Some authorities also indicate that a pightle tends to be associated with a house or messuage.

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; probably a diminutive; forms widely attested from the early 13th century CE. Manning sees two different origins for the picle and pightle types, picle deriving from the verb to pick, as a portion of land picked off from a larger field, but pightle deriving from pight, an archaic past participle of the verb to pitch, as a portion of land pitched or set out from an open field.