Definition of "mease" in İngilizce

noun

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

   • a mease of herrings

noun

1. (obsolete) A mess, a mese: a meal.

noun

1. (obsolete) A dwelling or messuage.

   • William Raynshaw, of Hulme, in the county of Lancaster, complains that whereas Hamnett Bent was seised in his demesne as of fee of certain meases of land, meadow, and pasture with appurtenances in Hulme […]

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net).

   • In the records of the series of trials which began soon afterwards, the following interesting description of a Mount's Bay seine in the seventeenth century is given: "Saynes are very long and deep nets, of a close or narrow mease, and lengthened at each end by sleeves of a larger mease, and are used in this anner, viz.: […]

verb

1. To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.

   • ( […] and except also fish meased in the sleeves of certain nets, called seynes), of which no tithes are demanded; […]