Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Held in common; subject to general use.
- Pasturable on common land.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Held in common.
- adjective Allowed to pasture on public commons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of land Owned, managed or used in
common - adjective of an animal That may be pastured on common land
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Examples
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In the locality just mentioned "commonable" burgesses, if we may imitate their manner of speech, might depasture two cows and one horse from Old May-day till
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"commonable" houses who were privileged to use the common.
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These privileges include pasturing all 'commonable beasts' on the moor, digging turf for fuel, stone and sand for mending houses and lands, and taking heath for thatching, 'paying their dues and doing their suits and services.'
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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The commonable meadows which the parish once had were enclosed at a date beyond anyone's recollection, though the neighbouring parish of Eakring still has some.
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Ampfield Common, Bishop's Wood, Pit Down, and Merdon Down, for all their commonable cattle, levant and couchant, upon their respective copyhold tenements, within the said manor.
John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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That the Customary tenants of the said manor have not had, nor ought to have in every year, at all times of the year, common of pasture in the wastes, heaths, and commons of the lord of the said manor within the said manor, for all their commonable cattle, without number or stint, exclusive of the lord of the said manor.
John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Commissioners recommended "that these commonable rights should be comprised in some general arrangement for the purpose of a commutation."
The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846
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Replication (to plea of freehold), that J. feifed of the manor, had for himfelf aod all hit cuiiomary tenants common, &c. for all commonable cattle every year oa Lammii,
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An aft for dividing, inclofing, and draining, the open common fields, common paftures, commonable and wafte lands and fen lands, within the manor and parifli of Warbeys, in the county of Huntingdon.
The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great ... 1795
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An aft for dividing and inclofing the open common fields, and fuch other commonable lands and wafte grounds as are within, and folely belonging to, the lordfhip of Owmby y in the parifh of Sear by in the county of Lincoln.
The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great ... 1795
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