Obs. rare1. [app. a. OF. terry, terri (16th c. in Godef.), dial. forms of terris bank, mound, trodden ground.] A trodden path, sometimes a balk or ridge of earth separating fields or allotments.

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1563.  Homilies, II. Rogation Week, IV. (1859), 496. They do wickedly which do turn up the ancient terries of the fields, that old men beforetime with great pains did tread out.

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