A straight line 'on' the landscape, linking sites of ancient significance, proposed by Alfred Watkins in the 1920s as ancient trackways The popular imagination supposes they may be lines of some force or energy, but experimentation and other kinds of investigation have not demonstrated this Current thinking is that they are 'spirit lines', ethereal or symbolic trackways across the land for spiritual travel in shamanic cultures, etc
- A short term grass PASTURE, often cut for SILAGE or hay It is sown to last for one or more years, after which it is ploughed up and replaced with another crop