(a) A meadow; clearing, open field; also, meadowland, a tract of grassland; ~ feld (ground); (b) demeine ~ [see demeine n. (1) 2. (b)]; ~ carde (cresse), a kind of cress; ?meadow cress Cardamine pratensis; ~ gavel (silver), a kind of rent; prob. rent on meadowland [see also gavel n. (1) 1. (c)]; ~ knicche [see knicche (a)]; ~ minte, a kind of wild mint; ~ pike, ?a pitchfork; ~ plauntein, a kind of plantain; ~ ratele, a kind of plant similar to the Germanders; ~ ripe, a unit of work required at harvest time [cp. bed-ripe]; ~ sote (swete), European meadowsweet (Spirea almaria); ?balm Melissa officinalis; ~ sute, an obligatory service of some kind; ~ wax, ~ wort, q.v.; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.31]; (d) in surnames.