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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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STUCK-RUN-WAYS, adv. In the run-rig system of alternating tenants' shares in arable land (see Rin, I. 1. (2)).Dmb. 1794 D. Ure Agric. Dmb. 15:
In some places, where the old system, with all its evils, is yet retained, a mixed farm of little more than a hundred acres, is sub-divided, stuck-run-ways, among five or six tenants.