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prettygoodwordthwaite - n. (obs.) forest land that has been cleared.
Rare except in place names, even when it wasn't obsolete. From not Old English, but Old Norse þveit -- and used in names of places only in those parts of Britain once controlled by Vikings.
---L.
Rare except in place names, even when it wasn't obsolete. From not Old English, but Old Norse þveit -- and used in names of places only in those parts of Britain once controlled by Vikings.
---L.
