] In MP, when Edmund teaches Mary Crawford to ride, one of their lessons takes place in Dr. Grant's meadow. Can anyone enlighten me as to what he would this meadow would be used for? Grazing cattle? as a lawn? I wondered if there were separate words for lawns and meadows to differeniate varying kinds of open green space.

The dictionary explains it:

"LAWN, n.

An open space between woods, or a plain in a park or adjoining a noble seat.

'Betwixt them lawns or level downs, and flocks grazing the tender herbs, were interspers'd.'"

Lawns, ultimately the celtic word for open lands or fields, seem to have been in JA's time open, higher ground, spaces; meadows were wettish fields, as along a river. Consequently, lawns were drier than meadows; both used for pasturage.

Both were used for grazing.

Dr Grant's field was part of the parsonage where he could graze his cows, horses, sheep, and geese.