Smoot

Type

Functional, Plants

Area of origin

Cumbria

Area of use

Cumbria

Related terms

Glat, Smeuse, Smeuce, Smewse, Meuse

  1. The run of a hare or another animal though a fence, wall or hedge.
  2. A gap in a drystone wall through which sheep can pass in single file and thus be accounted for by a shepherd.

Etymology

Cumbrian Dialect

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