A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows.

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selions] Narrow strip of arable land in an open field. (Bennett, Judith M. Women in the Medieval English Countryside, 235) Plow strip. (Gies, Frances and Joseph. Life in a Medieval Village, 245) A ridge or narrow strip lying between two furrows formed in dividing an open field. (Bennett, H.S. Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions, 1150-1400, 339) The smallest operational unit for ploughing within the open arable fields; the bound of each were well known, with stones or other markers. The shape was long and narrow, with several selions to the acre: confusingly, selions were often called acres. (Beresford, Maurice and Hurst, John. Wharram Percy: Deserted Medieval Village, 138)