mease

mease means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

Etymology

A patronymic from May or a variant of Meece.

name

A surname.

noun

A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.“a mease of herrings”
A mess, a mese: a meal.“I want my mease of milk when I go to my work.”
A dwelling or messuage.“1628, July 15, was a Gild new erected by four young bachelors of the town, and kept at the college-house, of above twenty meases of persons, and the poor then well relieved.”

verb

To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.“( […] and except also fish meased in the sleeves of certain nets, called seynes), of which no tithes are demanded; […]”