conyger

noun

1. (historical)A rabbit warren; an enclosed piece of land set aside for breeding and raising rabbits.

   “Mr. Stumpe pulled down other portions to make streets to house his workmen, so within a century after, the Tourist, whom I have quoted before, saw "only ruins of that large, spacious, strong, and famous abbey on the north side of the church, to manifest what her beauty was in her flourishing time." The buildings alone had covered six acres, and forty acres were occupied by the conyger or warren, the convent-garden, orchards, and meads.”

   “Or conygers may consist of a single mound hundreds of yards long; as on one north Wiltshire manor, where the warren, in a Conegar Copse, adjoins the demesne of the long-vanished manor-house, a mound more than twenty feet wide, more than 300 yards long, and still four to five feet high. This conyger, where rabbits were reserved centuries ago, is still kept as a pheasant roost.”

   “That, according to an order made at the last court touching the parrocks in the conyger, the homage, then sworn, assembled on 2 April last and allotted to each man for the parrocks in the way and form underwritten,”