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new ground
[ground n. 16.]
a. Ground which has been cleared and cultivated only recently. U.S. local.
b. A part of a goldfield unexploited until recently. Austral. (Cf. to break (new) ground s.v. ground n. 11 b.)
1624J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iv. 126 We haue ordinarily foure or fiue [barrels of produce an acre], but of new ground six, seuen, and eight. 1771in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1919) XIV. 134 Our new ground tob[acc]o here has been housed 3 or 4 days past. 1862Burrangong (New South Wales) Courier 13 Aug. 2/3 The rush to the Three Mile Diggings..is..going ahead in a most satisfactory manner, and a large extent of new ground has lately been taken up. 1868Mining Surveyors & Registrars' Rep. (Victoria, Dept. Mines) Sept. 36 At Barkly some new ground has been opened south of the main lead. 1915Dialect Notes IV. 186 New-ground, virgin land prepared for cultivation. 1937Shenandoah (Va.) Nature Jrnl. I. iii. 11/1 Each year the acre and half of rough rocky mountain and perhaps a little ‘new ground’ patch were tilled by hand. 1949H. Hornsby Lonesome Valley 44 The next time he looked back Chester's place was like a newground that had been burned over. 1953Amer. Speech XXVIII. 251 [Bedford Co., Pa.] New ground... Pronounced with a heavily accented new and as if it were a single word, newground. ‘There are lots of teaberries this year out on John Bussard's new ground.’ In general use. |