I wrote:
The other relates to Penny's question, ie the
meaning of '3 days math'. I've found a couple of sources
that define 'math' as 'mown grass' or a certain quantity
of it. One also says that so many 'days math' indicates
the number of times land was able to be mown in a season,
so it was a measure of the quality of the land rather
than its quantity.
Penny wrote:
Interesting Dave. Thanks for that.
Sorry to push but it IS interesting...can you remember what
were the particulars of your finds, in context?
Regards Penny
These are the sources:
http://www.faqs.org/collective-nouns/Led-Mel/Math.html
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/math
http://dictionary.babylon.com/Math
Not a lot more in them than I quoted, I'm afraid.
The '3 days' looks to me to indicate that the land is able to be mowed on three
separate occasions in a season - I can't see it making sense any other way.
Regards
Dave in Oz