dial. (Cheshire). Also 7 lound, loone, 9 (? erron.) loom. [? Corruption of lond LAND sb.] = LAND sb. 7.

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1611.  Will (Cheshire), in 31st Rep. Comm. Inq. Charities (1837), 361. Two butts of ground containing one lound.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. 136/2. Butt is half the quantity of a Loon. Ibid., 137/1 [see LAND sb. 7].

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1844.  Palin, in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., V. I. 62. A large portion of the flat clay-land has been formed, ages ago, into butts or loons, varying in width from 15 to 50 feet.

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1855.  Morton, Cycl. Agric., II. 724/2. Looms, (Chesh.), are wide lands, wider than butts.

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