Falcare
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
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.
356, 230.
Falcator, a mower; a servile tenant who performed the labor of mowing. Falcatura, a day's mowing.