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(noun) - (1) A field ploughed in curves ("bows") to suit a curving outline, is said to be ploughed rainbow. Hence, some fields have the name Rainbow Field.
--Edward Gepp's Essex Dialect Dictionary, 1923
(2) Meat-earth, cultivated land. Devonshire.
--James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
January 14, 2018