An enclosure in a grass field, in which cattle are penned up at night.
Origin
From Middle English wro, wra, from Old Norse rá, vrá, from Proto-Germanic *wranhō, from Proto-Indo-European *wrenk-. Cognate with Scots wra, wray, Danish and Swedish vrå.
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