warren

Substantiv

1. 1

   A system of burrows in which rabbits or other animals live.

   The largest warren in group 9 had 10 entrances in use and 11 not in use.

2. 2

   A system of burrows in which rabbits or other animals live. A structure where rabbits are kept as pets or for food, etc; the rabbits living in such a structure.

3. 3

   übertragenA mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.

   We piled into Manchester's car, leaving mine at the gallery, and crossed town, striking off the main road and into a warren of dirt roads and adobe.

   Andrew had allowed her practically a free hand, and her interference had resulted in making the house a warren of rooms, connected by narrow corridors that meant much more work and worry for the housekeeper than the conventional model would have given.

   With demand having increased by almost 40% in the past ten years, overcrowding now threatens to reach occasionally dangerous levels on platforms and in the warren of narrow subterranean passageways between them and the surface.

4. 4

   altertümlichThe class of small game such as hare, pheasants, stoats, etc., as opposed to beasts of chase such as deer, bear, and foxes.

   Grouse are not birds of warren ( 2 ); and trespass on a free warren will not lie for shooting them .

   The franchise of free warren is to be claimed only by grant from the crown, or by prescription which supposes such a grant (n); and the effect of it is, to vest in the grantee a property in such wild animals or inferior specieis of game as are deemed to beasts and fowls of warren (0).

5. 5

   A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits.

   Now warrenders tell us, and we are convinced of the fact from repeated experience, that if a wounded or dying rabbit get into a burrow, none of the living ones will ever pass it: they will die in their holes first; so that a single wounded or dead animal will cause the death of perhaps a score of their own kind in the same locality. This becomes a real loss to the proprietor of a warren.

   This warren is the flat at the summit of an exceedingly high mountain, and consists of, I think, the very worst land I ever saw in my life.

   As to the privileges of an owner of a free warren, he may not only prosecute a trespasser who is in pursuit of beasts and fowls of warren, whether he be a stranger in the locality, or a tenant of lands within the limits of the free warren, but he may also kill any dogs found hunting in his warren, whether they are doing damage at the time or not.

6. 6

   historischThe right to maintain and hunt an area of small beasts, similar to a free warren, but with certain limitations, such as restricting the right to hunt on parts of the land held by freeholders.

   The defendant has pleaded a warren in gross: he does not make it appendant or appurtenant. He shews merely that Charles I. granted a free warren, as he might do.

   Henry de Greye claims to have many franchises in Toveton by Charter of King Henry, that is to say a warren.

   Warren grants contained prohibitions on fishing more frequently than forest grants did.

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Plural

warrens