Wong

Obs. exc. in place-names. Also wang. [OE. wang, wong = OS. wang, OHG. wang, only in holzwangâ ‘campi nemorei’ and in place-names, (G. dial. wang mountain slope), ON. vangr (Sw. dial. vâng, Da. vang), Goth. waggs παράδεισος. (See WANG¹.)] A plain, field; a piece of meadow land; spec. a portion of unenclosed land under the open-field system: now surviving locally in the proper designations of certain fields or common lands.

Beowulf, 2242. Beorh ealʓearo wunode on wonge wæteryðum neah.

971.  Blickl. Hom., 105. Seoþþan heofonas tohlidon, & seo hea miht on þysne wang astaʓ.

a. 1000.  Phœnix, 13. Þæt is wynsum wong.

c. 1300.  Havelok, 1444. Borwes, tunes, wodes and wonges.

13[?].  in Spelman, Gloss. Arch. (1664), Tres acræ terræ jacentes in lez wongs.

1371.  in Cal. Close Rolls, 351. [A third part of a furlong called the] Londmedewong … [a third part of a furlong called] Londwong.

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 532/1. Wonge of londe, territorium.

1525.  in Lincoln Wills (Linc. Rec. Soc. V), I. 157. ij acres landes lying in burgh callyd schothorne wang. Ibid. (1528), II. 97. A certeyn lande callyd Bawdwynwang.

a. 1825.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Wong, an agricultural division or district of some uninclosed parishes…. In the parish of Horningtoft, in Norfolk, for instance, there is the How-wong, q.d. the wong by the hill.

1856.  N. & Q., 2nd Ser. II. 79/2. At Tickhill [Yorks] … are lands, all or mostly meadow, called the North Wongs, South Wongs, Saffron Wongs, and Church Wongs.

1877.  N. W. Linc. Gloss., s.v., At Horncastle there is a piece of common land near the town called The Wong.