leasow
(Green) land as opposed to flood or desert; a pasture.
archaic, historical
Reflexions in her Book, strike one as a Statue does among the tangled Thickets of the Leasowes […].
Where it comes from
From Middle English leesewe, lesewe, leswe, from Old English lǣs (“pasture”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāsu (“pasture”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry leasow (CC BY-SA 4.0).