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old land
a. dial. Also olland, ollunt. Land newly ploughed after having been uncultivated for some time; also, arable land sown with grass for a period of more than two years.
1674J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 73 Old land: ground that hath layn untilled long time and is new plowed up. Suff[olk]. 1788Ann. Agric. IX. 429 The following is the former [crop rotation]: 1 and 2. Ollond, or lay of two years, 3. Wheat or oats on one earth, 4. Turnips, 5. Barley. 1882in N. & Q. 18 Nov. 406/2 It was the land ploughed out of grass (out-land), which was known as olland. 1895P. H. Emerson Birds, Beasts, & Fishes Norf. Broadland 8 Newlays and ollunts close by the marsh farmhouse. 1909Eastern Daily Press (Norwich) 23 Jan. 8/1 Oats also do much better on an olland than on loose land.
b. U.S. Land that has been in cultivation for a long time, or land exhausted by a long period of cultivation.
1715in Amer. Speech (1940) XV. 290/2 At the Corner of the said Jones's old land. 1748J. Eliot Essay Field-Husbandry New Eng. 16 The third sort of Land I would speak of is our old Land which we have worn out. 1833B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 10 Violet cane..prefers old land, and that which is rather dry. 1872Rep. Indian Affairs 1871 (U.S.) 230 It is my intention, during the coming season, to..summer-fallow as much of the old land as can be spared from cultivation. 1919D. L. Cady Rhymes Vermont Rural Life 67, I learnt soon after I was born To never use ‘old land’ for corn.
c. Geol. Usu. as one word. Land which lies behind a coastal plain of more recent origin, esp. where the coastal plain has been built up from sedimentary material derived from that same land; also, an area of very ancient crystalline rocks, esp. when reduced to low relief. Also attrib.
1895Geogr. Jrnl. V. 133 The old-land streams..are extended across the new coastal plain by the addition of consequent lower courses. 1897Ibid. IX. 538 For convenience all the land back of this initial shoreline will be called the ‘oldland’, and all alluvial accumulation built in front of the oldland..will be called ‘foreland’. 1903Jrnl. Geol. XI. 617 The Canadian shield of Suess..marks the site of the oldland area from which the materials of the later sedimentary deposits were derived. 1937[see fall zone s.v. fall n.1 29]. 1939A. K. Lobeck Geomorphol. xiv. 447 It [sc. a coastal plain] may rest upon an oldland of simple structure or of complex structure. 1957Geogr. Jrnl. CXXIII. 503 Observations carried out on the Dartmoor tract of the oldland of south-west England. |