mease
/M IY1 Z/noun
- 1
(UK, dialect, dated) A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
- 2
(obsolete) A mess, a mese: a meal.
- 3
(obsolete) A dwelling or messuage.
- 4
A surname.
- 5
Obsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net). [A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.]
verb
- 1
To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.
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