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Ingres, -gers, n.2 [Gres n., Gers n., grass.] Inlying, as Opposed to outlying, grazing land. — 1509 Prestwick B. Rec. 41.
Gif it be t[h]ocht expedient to kep ingres, mak ane hird to the ingers; and sa mony as the ingres ma bere to gang befor that hird
1540 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 406/2. 1573 Prot. Bk. G. Grote 88.
To be pasturit … on his ingers and pasturable landis

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