Lammas Definition

lăməs
noun
A harvest festival formerly held in England on Aug. 1, when bread baked from the first crop of wheat was consecrated at Mass.
Webster's New World
A Christian feast formerly celebrated in commemoration of Saint Peter's deliverance from prison.
American Heritage
This day (Lammas Day) or this time (Lammastide) of the year.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • August 1
  • lammas-day

Origin of Lammas

  • Middle English Lammasse from Old English hlāfmæsse hlāf loaf mæsse Mass Mass

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • from Old English hlafmæsse (loaf mass, harvest festival)

    From Wiktionary

Lammas Sentence Examples

  • St Giles's was literally a village in the fields; Piccadilly was " the waye to Redinge," Oxford Street " the way to Uxbridge," Covent Garden an open field or garden, and Leicester Fields lammas land.

  • In Guadalcanar is Mt Lammas (8000 ft.), while the extreme heights of the other islands range between 2500 and 5000 ft.

  • These commoners might be the several owners, the inhabitants of a parish, freemen of a borough, tenants of a manor, &c. The opening of the fields by throwing down the fences took place on Lammas Day (12th of August) for corn-lands and on Old Midsummer Day (6th of July) for grass.

  • In the United Kingdom ordinary wheat, such as old red Lammas and Chiddam white, is used for straw-plaiting, the straw being cut some time before the berry ripens.

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Words Starting With

LLALAM

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SASMAS

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