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Easement

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1405, OED Evaluation: NA

The process or means of giving or obtaining ease or relief from pain, discomfort, or anything annoying or burdensome; relief, alleviation; †redress of grievances. Now somewhat rare.

ExampleMeaning
Now also, there was ah an easement almost directly across the street from my mom and dad's which was a strip of land that nobody owned and we would use that to go down and go swimming, but ah there was no real beach there and you couldn't go there with your friends so you were better off going to the beach and meeting everybody.
The process or means of giving or obtaining ease or relief from pain, discomfort, or anything annoying or burdensome; relief, alleviation; †redress of grievances. Now somewhat rare.
ExampleMeaning
And ah the- the water lines were- the big water lines were under his basement floor, you-see? So we had a- a easement, what they call a easement that was granted way way back before the war- before this guy even owned it.
The process or means of giving or obtaining ease or relief from pain, discomfort, or anything annoying or burdensome; relief, alleviation; †redress of grievances. Now somewhat rare.
ExampleMeaning
Ah, at the time they got the easement for the highway, they took that strip.
The process or means of giving or obtaining ease or relief from pain, discomfort, or anything annoying or burdensome; relief, alleviation; †redress of grievances. Now somewhat rare.