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dry land
Also dry-land, dryland.
[See dry a. 5.]
1. Land not submerged or under water; land as opposed to sea.
a1225Juliana (Bodl. MS.) 77 And drof ham to drue lond in to champaine. a1330Otuel 444 Anon riȝt als roulond Hadde ikauȝt þe druye lond [etc.]. 1535Coverdale Gen. i. 10 And God called y⊇ drye londe, Earth. a1626Bacon New Atl. (1627) 3 God..discovered the face of the Deep, and brought forth Drie-land. 1892Gardiner Stud. Hist. Eng. 1 Animals could pass over on dry land.
2. orig. U.S. An area of low rainfall, esp. when farmed without irrigation. Cf. dry-farming s.v. dry a. C. 3.
1893[see sense 3 b below]. 1910W. Macdonald Dry-Farming p. v, To all those who believe in the dry-lands of the United States and the British Empire this volume is respectfully inscribed. Ibid. i. 34 They have already demonstrated..that the finest wheats are those grown on dry lands. 1964TV Guide (U.S.) 27 June 12 Ken Curtis picked up the accent..as a boy in the dry-lands of southeastern Colorado. 1977Observer 28 Aug. 4/1 The desert spreads like a skin disease, erupting..behind the margin dividing dryland from desert proper.
3. attrib.
a. Of or pertaining to dry land: land-.
1696Whiston Th. Earth iv. (1722) 330 The Generation of the Dryland Animals. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. v. §33 Oxen, and other dry land animals. 1866Howells Venet. Life xii. 179 No horse..that type of dry-land locomotion.
b. Of or pertaining to dry lands (sense 2 above); produced by farming without irrigation.
1893Irrigation Age Apr. 358/2 Nearly or quite every effort that has been made to establish a dry-land colony has ended in failure. 1917Eye Opener (Calgary) 6 Jan. 3/5 Jan Johnson and Katrina Jensen married and took up a dry land homestead. 1920Harvey's Weekly 24 July 11/2 Vegetables—‘dry-land’ and irrigated. 1953Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. June 241/2 Providing a market for dry-land cattle for finishing..and..bringing nearer to the dry-land farmer the superior service facilities of the..irrigation districts. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 6 Mar. 4/1 If we don't get rain in 30 days you can write off the dry-land wheat crop. 1985Sci. Amer Jan. 16/2 Broad acres of dryland grain invite machine harvesters.
c. Special Combs. dry-land farming orig. U.S., farming in dry lands (sense 2 above); a method of farming in which moisture conservation techniques are practised so as to avoid irrigation in arid or semi-arid areas; = dry farming s.v. dry a. C. 3; hence dry-land farm, dry-land farmer.
1914‘B. M. Bower’ Flying U Ranch 166 The soil was not fertile enough even for the most optimistic of ‘dry land’ farmers to locate upon it; and this was before the dry-land farming craze had swept the country. 1953[see sense 3 b above]. 1973B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years iv. 38 My boy and I were farming near Manyberries and it was dryland farming. No irrigation. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 11c/7 (Advt.), 940 acres deeded ranch in Big Horn County... Has some good dryland farm ground. 1979Nature 27 Sept. 251/3 Some good progress has certainly been made in research on dryland farming, largely aimed at reducing risks in cultivation in rainfed areas.
Hence ˈdrylander chiefly N. Amer., one who has settled in a dry-land area, esp. one engaged in dry-land farming.
1921Frontier Feb. 11 It is good house. He build summer kitchen. None of drylanders have summer kitchen. 1943J. K. Howard Montana 37 Neighbors helped themselves to the drylanders' abandoned house. 1963Time (Canada ed.) 11 Oct. 16/2 At the Tivoli theater in Saskatoon last week, surviving drylanders could be heard telling youngsters: ‘That was the way it was’. |