Definition of Pightle

1. Noun. (Norfolk obsolete) A small enclosure of land. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pightle

1. a croft or small enclosure [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pightle

piggybacker
piggybackers
piggybacking
piggybacks
piggybank
piggybanks
pigheaded
pigheadedly
pigheadedness
pigheadednesses
pight
pighted
pightel
pightels
pighting
pightle (current term)
pightles
pights
pigless
piglet
piglets
piglike
pigling
piglings
pigmaean
pigman
pigmean
pigmeat
pigmeats
pigment

Literary usage of Pightle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Suffolk, and the Towns Near Its Borders by William White (1844)
"John Sheppard left two yearly rent-charges to this parish, viz., 40s. a-year out of the Church pightle, for a dinner on Lady day, to be given to 20 poor ..."

2. The History of an East Anglian Soke: Studies in Original Documents by Christobel Mary Hoare Hood (1918)
"Grays Yard, Grays Yard Lands and pightle between the village and the sea; ... Heath, Old, Heath pightle and South Repps Heath, all on the Trimingham and ..."

3. The History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, Called Bedford by Samuel Wells (1830)
"... corner of the former : by the lode west j and the load north - 3 1 0 Another severall pightle ... and a triangled pightle south - - SOO Another severall ..."

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