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Park, n. Also: parke, pairk; perk(e, perc. [ME. and e.m.E. park(e (c 1260), parc (c 1275), perk (north., a 1440), a park, also any enclosed piece of ground (once, 1658), OF. parc, med. L. (Eng.) parcus (c 820), -a, -um (12th c.). Cf. Parcage n. (and Parrok n.¹).] A park, in the usual applications.

1. A piece of land enclosed for a particular purpose.a. Orig., a tract of land in which beasts of chase were kept; a piece of enclosed woodland or forest. b. Land set aside for recreation; gardens. c. A meadow or pasturage; a field (? chiefly or only, for grazing).Also fig.For further examples, see Brume-park n., Haining n., Hors n. 3 a.(1) 11.. Reg. Dunferm. 39.
[Inter terram suam quam habent extra parcum … de Kirketun 1263 Exch. R. I. 24.
Circa constructionem parci de Striuielin 1382–3 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 165.]
Walterus de Parco(2) 11.. Reg. Dunferm. 190.
Parkley 1359 Exch. R. I. 572.
Parkmedow 1375 Rot. Sc. 973/2.
Parkefeld 1390 Coll. Aberd. & B. 499.
Parkhille 1575 Exch. R. XX. 226.
Parktoun de Downe 1585 Acts III. 383/1.
Perkheid(3) 1375 Barb. xi. 298 (E).
For in the park amang the treys The hors men … Sall put thaim to confusioune Ib. 422. 1388 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 294. 1408 Coldingham Ct. Roll MS.
Le est parke c1475 Wall. ix. 481.
Out off the park he gert the buschement pas In to the field 1507 Treas. Acc. IV. 76.
Thre quyte deir to put in the park c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 92 (M).
Thir ladeis … Enterit within this park of most pleseyr 1566 Reg. Privy S. V. ii. 135/2.
Cum foresta lie park 1569 Reg. Privy C. II. 14.
The said officiar brocht [cattle & sheep] … to the said complenaris park … and thairin enterit the samyn to remane at the gerse a1570-86 Maitland Maitl. F. xcv. 44.
Jhone of the park rypis kist and ark c1575 Balfour Pract. 138. c1600 Napier Gooding and Manuring 26 b.
Let every man cause bigg ten or twelve parks upon two or three year old leyland Ib.
The said haill parks should be hained, and not pastured upon till Whitsunday thereafter 1621 Misc. Maitl. C. I. 458.
Playing at the goff in the park 1637 Reg. Great S. 231/2.
Ane park of grase per lie ane eard dyk circumcinctum 1657 Misc. Hist. Soc. VII. 37.
Thursday … raked the parke 1683 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II. 42.
Such parks as were … only used for pasturing the husband's own goods 1686 Sc. Hist. Rev. XXII. 184. 1687 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. III. 638.
The fleshers do extortion … by taking all the parks and inclosures about Edinburgh(b) 1519 Rec. Earld. Orkney 93.
Girse pairk(c) 15.. Clar. iv. 1739.
Perkefig. a1568 Bann. MS. 223 b/35.
Luf hes me wardit in ane park of pane(4) c1400 Troy-bk. i. 243.
For nere-hand by the cite war Fare forestis and parkis wyd 1461 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 362.
The forsaide landys … with wodis parkis schawys [etc.] 1473 Reg. Cupar A. I. 173.
The sade tenandis sal kepe thar self … out of hanyngis, treys, stankis, parkis, medous and wardis 1513 Doug. xii. Prol. 176.
Within fermans and parkis cloys of palys [etc.] 1517 Reg. Great S. 27/1.
Cum silvis le parkis c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1928.
Beildingis, gardyngis, and plesand parkis [: warkis] 1597 Warrender P. (S.H.S.) II. 334.
Perkis(5) 1375 Barb. xvii. 64.
In Dwns park c1475 Wall. iv. 699. 1537–8 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I. 231.
Fra the parkis Newbottill and Cranstoun 1574 Reg. Privy C. II. 403.
Oure Soverane Lordis park of Linlythquow 1575 Reg. Privy S. VII. 46/1.
His hienes park besyde Edinburgh 1595 Skene in Misc. Stair Soc. I. 144.
The park of Falkland(b) 1554 Misc. Bann. C. III. 79.
Till Eirle Maliseus perc of Strathren(6) 1534–5 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I. 129.
Ane man to keip the peile and park 1539 Treas. Acc. VII. 175.
Keipar of the park and awnys in Linlithqu 1590–1 Exch. R. XII. 153. 1602 Treas. Acc. MS. 164.
To the keiperis of the park … grene Kentschyre claith

2. Attrib. and comb.With -dyke, also -dure, -hill, etc.(1) 1501 Treas. Acc. II. 105.
The park dikis of Strivelin 1535 Reg. Episc. Brechin. II. 187.
Perk dik 1553–4 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 286.
Three stane yeitts made in the said park dike 1554 Ib. 194. 1630 Black Bk. Taymouth 421.
The park dykes … are built of feal only 1679 Fountainhall Decis. I. 31.
His stone park-dyke 1687 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds II. 492 (13 Aug.).
At the park dyk fot 1700 Peebles B. Rec. II. 162.(2) 1513 Treas. Acc. IV. 524.
The park dure — 1461 Newburgh B. Ct. 5 b.
The park hyll — 1542 Stirlings of Keir 378.
Perkland 1576 Misc. Spald. C. II. 331.
Ane lyifrent of … the twa pairk landis of Claschbanye — 1681 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 25 June.
William Johnston parkmaster to Sir Robert — 1584 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I. 306.
Pretendit tennent keipar and froster of the perk wod of Fywie — 1513 Treas. Acc. IV. 524.
The park yett 1558 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I. 293.