Selion

Selion
selions
1) Narrow strip of arable land in an open field.
(Bennett, Judith M. Women in the Medieval English Countryside, 235)
2) Plow strip.
(Gies, Frances and Joseph. Life in a Medieval Village, 245)
3) A ridge or narrow strip lying between two furrows formed in dividing an open field.
(Bennett, H.S. Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions, 1150-1400, 339)
4) The smallest operational unit for ploughing within the open arable fields; the bound of each were well known, with stones or other markers. The shape was long and narrow, with several selions to the acre: confusingly, selions were often called acres.
(Beresford, Maurice and Hurst, John. Wharram Percy: Deserted Medieval Village, 138)

Medieval glossary. 2014.

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