In old English law. To mow. Falcare prata, to mow or cut grass in meadows laid in for hay. A customary service to the lord by his inferior tenants.
Jus falcandi, the right of cutting wood. Bract, fol. 231.
Falcata, grass fresh mown, and laid in swaths.
Falcatio, a mowing. Bract fols. 35b, 230. Falcator, a mower; a servile tenant who performed the labor of mowing. Falcatura, a day’s mowing.