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oak land, oak-land Chiefly U.S.
[oak 8.]
Land bearing a growth of oak-trees.
c1658in Early Rec. Lancaster, Mass. (1884) 271 Thare is another peice of upland..Sum part pine Land & partly oak Land. Ibid., Sum part of it [is]..oake land. 1737J. Wesley Jrnl. 2 Dec. (1909) I. 401 The land is of four sorts—pine-barren, oak-land, swamp, and marsh. 1751J. Bartram Observ. Trav. Pennsylv. etc. 21 A steep hill..the soil middling oak land. 1811Weekly Reg. 28 Dec. 302/1 It was a piece of dry oak land. 1837W. Jenkins Ohio Gazetteer 187 The soil of Franklin is, what is generally called oak land, being a mixture of clay, sand and gravel. 1849E. Chamberlain Indiana Gazetteer (ed. 3) 209 The oak land is more extensive than the beech. 1850Mrs. Browning Lam. for Adonis iv, The mountains above, and the oaklands below. |