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单词 cornland
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cornlandn.

Forms: Also corn-land.
Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcornland.
a. Land appropriated to, or suitable for, the cultivation of corn.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > corn-land or -field
cornlanda1387
cornfield?1523
corn-ground1548
granary1570
milpa1648
kerning-ground1732
seeds1794
walk1797
corn belt1882
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 43 Þere is nobil cornlond and fruytful.
1469 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 21 The corne~land is overflotin with water.
1616 T. Overbury et al. Characters in His Wife (9th impr.) sig. S2 The best acre of corne-land in England.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 140 Nitre..has the greatest Effect on all Corn-Lands.
1846 C. G. Prowett tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound 18 The broad Corn-lands of fruitful Cicily.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vi. 180 Broken by strips of cornland and snug farms.
b. Land suitable for growing maize. U.S.
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1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. (1867) 41 Their Corne Land in Tillage in this Towne is about 1200. Acres.
1838 H. W. Ellsworth Valley Upper Wabash iv. 39 The lands, that we call first rate corn-lands, are generally alluvial bottom lands.

Compounds

cornland crow the Natal name of Heterocorax capensis.
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1867 E. L. Layard Birds S. Afr. 168 Corvus Segetum... Korenland Kraai of Colonists, lit. Cornland-Crow.
1899 J. D. S. Woodward Birds of Natal 1 As this bird is very partial to cultivated ground it is often called the Cornland crow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

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corn-land
a. Ground or soil, esp. as having a particular use or particular properties. Often with defining word, as arable land, corn-land, plough-land, stubble land.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > ground as suitable for cultivation
landc825
earthOE
farmland1357
ox-landa1387
red land1459
lair1519
mainland1686
c825 Vesp. Psalter cvii. 37 And seowun lond & plantadon wingeardas.
a1050 Liber Scintill. (1889) x. 51 Færlic & swiðlic storm on hryre landu [L. arua] forhwyrfð.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 177/11 Seges, gesawen æcer vel land.
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 35 Lond wel eerid and wel dungid.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 8 Tilynge is vs to write of euery londe.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 796 Hec bovata, a hoxgangyn lond... Hec virgata, a eryd lond. Hic selis, a ryggyd lond.
1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 33 While the Plowman neer at hand, Whistles ore the Furrow'd Land.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 114 And from the marshy Land Salt Herbage for the fodd'ring Rack provide. View more context for this quotation
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Mushroom They [sc. black poppies] are never found but on burnt Lands.
1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 283 In England, the land is rich, but coarse.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab v. 59 Loading with loathsome rottenness the land.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 593 The land to a great extent round his pleasure grounds was in his own hands.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 616 The conversation was almost exclusively confined to the topics of steam-boats,..black-land, red-land, bottom-land, timber-land [etc.].
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