landn.1
/land/, U.S. /lænd/ The simple word.† 5. The country, as opposed to the town. on (in, †Sc. to) land: in the country; also, into the country; hence, to distant parts. Obsolete.
1. † b. A tract of land. Also transferred of ice. Obsolete.
a. The solid portion of the earth's surface, as opposed to sea, water. Cf. firm land n. at firm adj. 8, dry land n. †occasionally classed as one of the ‘elements’ = earth n.1 15.Often in to land, on land (cf. aland adv.), by land (in quot. 1841 transferred); also †at land = on land, ashore.
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the world > the earth > land > [noun]
landc900
groundOE
earthOE
dry landa1225
sandc1275
dry1382
continent1590
fastland1680
terra firma1692
region1697
firm land1872
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) ii. iii. 104 Seo is monigra folca ceapstow of londe & of sæ cumendra.
OE Beowulf 1623 Com þa to lande lidmanna helm swiðmod swymman.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 60 On Italiȝe he com on lond.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 721 Fro londe woren he bote a mile.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 103 It hiled al ðis werldes drof; And fier and walkne and water and lond.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 266 Nouþer suld werri bi lond, no in water bi schip.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 322 Þe barrez of vche a bonk ful bigly me haldes, Þat I may lachche no lont.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) i. 6 He may go by many Weyes, bothe on See and Londe.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 29 Ye seken lond and see for youre wynnynges.
1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. B.ivv It is moost pleasaunt rowynge nere the lande, and walkynge nere the see.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Cc7v To hunt out perilles..By sea, by land, where so they may be mett.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. xi. 107 We feele greater heat at land then at sea.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. ii. 118 It behooves vs now to treate of the three elements, aire, water and land.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 128 I not doubt He came aliue to Land . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 337 His Omnipresence fills Land, Sea, and Aire. View more context for this quotation
1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Prince xii, in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. 216 They began to enterprize at land.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 127 I fairly descry'd Land, whether an Island or a Continent, I could not tell.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 48 And now all in mine own Countree I stood on the firm land!
1841 F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life (1882) II. 142 At the beginning of railroad travelling, persons who preferred posting on the high road were said to go by land.
1849 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (new ed.) VIII. lv. 628 All the great defeats of France at land have come from England.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 63 I..was never afraid..to speak my mind to them, by sea or land.
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the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun]
placec1325
piecec1330
soil1430
groundc1436
territory?a1439
land1604
strain1614
track1686
reaching1727
terrain1766
land-score1828
outstretch1858
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. x. 153 There is a straight and a long and stretched out land on eyther side.
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea To Rdr. A large Bay or inlet of the Sea,..entering in betwixt two lands.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. 139 Captain Luke Fox in his North-West Discoveries..complained fearfully of the fast Lands of Ice upon those Coasts.
2. † b. poetic. = ground n. in various senses. Obsolete.
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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the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun]
ground971
earthOE
fleta1000
foldOE
landOE
floor?a1400
soila1400
margin?a1425
yird1433
sulye1434
swardc1440
leaa1475
paithmentc1480
visagea1500
crust1555
mother earth1568
solum1829
carpet1918
deck1925
dutty1925
OE Genesis 203 Inc is halig feoh and wilde deor on geweald geseald, and lifigende, ða ðe land tredað.
14.. Fencing w. Two Handed Sword in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 309 Fresly smyte thy strokis by dene, And hold wel thy lond that hyt may be sene.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. vii. sig. R7v Her selfe vppon the land She did prostrate. View more context for this quotation
1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. vii. 18 He..roll'd, with Limbs relax'd, along the Land.
3.
a. A part of the earth's surface marked off by natural or political boundaries or considered as an integral section of the globe; a country, territory. Also put for the people of a country.Sometimes defined by a phrase containing the name of the country or stating one of its prominent characteristics or products, as the land of Egypt, the land of the midnight sun, the land of the chrysanthemum, etc. Cf. 2a, Phrases 2b.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun]
landc725
kithc888
thedec888
earthOE
groundOE
foldOE
countryc1300
marchc1330
nationc1330
wonec1330
provincea1382
soila1400
strandc1400
terragec1440
room1468
limita1513
limitationa1527
seat1535
terrene1863
negara1955
negeri1958
c725 Corpus Gloss. 1995 Territorium, lond.
a900 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 787 (Parker MS.) Þæt wæron þa ærestan scipu Deniscra monna þe Angel cynnes lond gesohton.
971 Blickl. Hom. 197 Þonne is seo cirice on Campania þæs landes gemæro.
1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1132 (Laud) Ðis gear com Henri king to þis land.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 624 Albion hatte þat lond.
1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 10154 He sende to alle þe bissopes of þis lond is sonde.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxi. 33 Abymalech..and Phicol..turneden aȝen into the loond of Palestynes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3766 Þis esau..Oute o þe land did iacob chace.
14.. Sir Beues 2327 (MS. M.) All the lond after hem drowȝe Armyd with good harnes inouȝe.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 936 In Iudy londe.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ii. 26 Vortiger..often tyme faught so with them that he drof hem oute of hys londe.
?1529 Proper Dyaloge Gentillman & Husbandman sig. B iii God left neuer lande yet vnpunished Which agaynst hys worde made resystence.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. iii. 8 To carye them out of that londe, in to a good and wyde londe, euen in to a londe that floweth with mylke and hony.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13932 I haue faryn out of fere lannd my fader to seche.
1611 Bible (King James) Josh. ii. 1 Go, view the land, euen Iericho. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. ix. 1 When at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xxv, in Poems 11 He feels from Juda's Land The dredded Infants hand.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 404 These Answers in the silent Night receiv'd, The King himself divulg'd, the Land believ'd.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 51 Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III v, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 243/2 He made songs for all the land, Sweet both to feel and understand.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 279 In our own land, the national wealth has, during at least six centuries, been almost uninterruptedly increasing.
b. figurative.
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1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D3v Her bare brest, the heart of all her land . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 246 In the body of this fleshly Land, This kingdome, this Confine of blood, and breathe. View more context for this quotation
4.
a. Ground or territory as owned by a person or viewed as public or private property; landed property. ( common land, concealed land, copyhold land, debatable land, demesne land, fabric land, fiscal land or lands: see the defining words. Also bond-land n., Crown land n. 1.)
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land
land971
terre1526
mould?1577
dirt1604
demesnes1628
terra firma1699
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > [noun] > border country
threap-land1259
marchc1300
the Border1535
debatable1551
debatable land1587
threap-ground1825
971 Blickl. Hom. 51 Þa teoþan sceattas..ge on lande, ge on oþrum þingum.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1953 His lond he huld half ȝer.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. l. 295 Laborers þat haue no lond to liuen on Bote heore honden.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4033 To dele þair landes þam bi-tuixs, þat aiþer might þam ald wit his.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 581 Worthy to been Stywardes of rente and lond Of any lord that is in Engelond.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xvi. 72 Borne to great land, treasure, and substaunce.
1587 Lady Stafford in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 209 They have recovered their land, with the Arrerages.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 101 This fellowe might be in's time a great buyer of Land . View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings viii. 3 She went foorth to crie vnto the king for her house, and for her land . View more context for this quotation
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. i. 3 A convenient House with a hundred Acres of Land adjoining to it.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 142 He had no intention of depriving the English colonists of their land.
1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 12 Some one will say that he is beyond question rich, who owns a great deal of land.
b. plural. Territorial possessions. †Also rarely in singular, a piece of landed property, an estate in land.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > a landed property or estate
homeOE
landsc1000
estrec1275
manorc1300
stead1338
room?a1513
soil1575
demesne1584
proprietary1608
land-gooda1626
country estate1692
property1719
quinta1754
estate1772
hacienda1772
concern1787
finca1909
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints (1885) I. 192 Feower land he forgeaf forð In mid him ælþeodigum to andfencge and to ælmes-dædum.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1843 Ðor him solde an lond kinge emor.
c1330 Spec. Gy Warw. 163 Þouh man haue muche katel As londes, rentes, and oþer god.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 86 [He] became..riche..and purchased londes and possessiones.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccxxiijv (margin) Iohn Frederick demaundeth his landes and dignities.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 9 All the Temporall Lands, which men deuout By Testament haue giuen to the Church. View more context for this quotation
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 143 Who should have your Lands but your heirs?
1787 R. Burns Poems (1809) II. 101 The Earl gave him a four merk land near the castle.
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 135 All his messuages, lands, and tenements.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 84 Considering this grievance more tolerable than..the loss of the public lands.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 130 Their lands had been divided by Cromwell among his followers.
c. Law. (See quots.)
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property
unmoblec1400
unmovable1536
reality1581
immovable1588
realty1616
land1628
real estatea1642
fixed property1845
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 4 Land in the legall signification comprehendeth any ground, soile or earth whatsoeuer, as meadowes, pastures, woods, moores, waters marishes, furses and heath,..It legally includeth also all castles, houses, and other buildings.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 18 Land hath also, in its legal signification, an indefinite extent, upwards as well as downwards.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 300/1 Land in its most restricted legal signification is confined to arable ground... In its more wide legal signification land extends also to meadow, pasture, woods, moors, waters, &c.
d. South African. An area of ground under cultivation; = field n.1 2a. Frequently in plural.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > cultivated land > plot of cultivated land
acreOE
plotlOE
inhook1214
table?1440
culturea1475
labouragec1475
land1731
lazy-bed1743
ladang1783
shamba1840
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. xxviii. 357 The Value of the Tenth of the Produce of Lands is computed at 14000 Florins yearly.
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. xxviii. 358 The Colonies are encreasing daily, and daily taking in new Lands for Tillage.
1806 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–98 (ed. 2) I. i. 5 At the feet of the hills..are several pleasant farms, having gardens well stored with vegetables for the table, vineyards, and extensive corn lands.
1896 H. A. Bryden Tales S. Afr. 248 She had..some good tobacco ‘lands’, which yielded no mean profit each year.
1926 O. Schreiner From Man to Man 23 They burnt harpuis bushes on the lands.
1939 tr. E. N. Marais's My Friends the Baboons ix. 112 If he raids a land..he will..hand over to her a share of the mealies or fruit.
1941 S. Cloete Hill of Doves (1942) xxviii. 398 They were riding through a mealie land.
1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xviii. 297 Dust enveloped the world. Maurice and Sita could not even see where the lands had been.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [noun]
landc900
fieldeOE
uplanda1122
countryc1300
regiona1382
monkerya1790
countryside1815
the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] > at, to, or from (a) remote part(s)
on (in, Sc. to) landc1386
peakishly1567
way back1853
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adverb] > in the land or country
uponlanda900
alanda1225
on (in, Sc. to) landc1405
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xx. [xxviii.] 246 Byrig & lond & ceastre & tunas & hus.
c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xxxviii. 234 Ruri, on lande.
c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 4069 Swiche a ioye was it to here hem synge,..In sweete accord, My lief is faren in londe.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 702 A poure person dwellyng vp on lond.
1425 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 11/2 Ande at þis be done als wele in borowis as to lande throu al þe realme.
1491 Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1814) II. 226/2 The aulde statutis and ordinances maid of before baith to burghe and to lande.
?a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Sheep & Dog l. 1268 in Poems (1981) 52 [He] dytis all the pure men vp on land.
c1535 Ploughman's Tale iii. sig. D.i Thou..lyuest in londe as a lorell.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 81 Chargeing all our soueranes liegis alsweill to burgh as to land, regalitie as to royalitie, to address thame to come to Edinburgh.
1634–46 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 74 [The] whole body of this Realme both in brught and land.
a1800 Jock the Leg in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1894) V. ix. 128 In brough or land.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 80 I glance like the wildfire through brugh and through land.
6. Expanse of country of undefined extent; = country n. 2a. rare except with qualifying word, as downland n.1, highland n. and adj., lowland n. and adj., mountain-land n., etc.
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the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > undefined extent
countryc1300
landa1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 130 Leaue your crispe channels, and on this greene-Land Answere your summons. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 323 The Ouse, dividing the well-watered land, Now glitters in the sun, and now retires.
1842 Ld. Tennyson May Queen (new ed.) Concl. ii, in Poems (new ed.) I. 169 And sweet is all the land about, and all the flowers that blow.
7. One of the strips into which a cornfield, or a pasture-field that has been ploughed, is divided by water-furrows. Often taken as a measure of land-area and of length, of value varying according to local custom.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > other units of land measure
wandalec1150
wista1200
landc1400
ridge1439
peck1442
scrophec1450
buttc1460
rig1485
mark1488
stick1531
farthingdeal1543
plough-gang1548
quarterland1563
ploughgate1565
last1576
wand1596
ox-skin1610
garbred1621
plank1631
nooka1634
buttal1635
farthinga1640
rick1641
familia1676
rhandir1688
setiera1690
worthine1701
fierding1768
whip-land1811
rai1933
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land > divisions of ploughed land
ridgeOE
butt1304
landc1400
rig1428
sheth1431
shed1473
stitch1493
loon1611
furlong1660
size-land1744
slit1775
kench1799
stimpart1896
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvii. l. 58 Feith..nolde nouȝt neighen hym by nyne londes lengthe.
1522 Will in Market Harboro' Rec. (1890) 211 A lond of barly next the whet lond.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xxi. f. 38v A furlong called Dale furlong ye whiche furlong conteyneth .xxx. landes and two heed landes.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iv In Kent they haue other maner of plowes,..some woll tourne their shelbrede at euery landes ende & plowe all one way.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Arepennem, a measure of ground as much as our lande or halfe aker.
c1580 Merye Hist. Mylner Abyngton (new ed.) sig. A.iij The mylners house is nere Not the length of a lande.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 7 To putt ewes into the Carre 3 weekes before ladyday.., allowinge 5 ewes for a lande.
1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 21 To cut down one Land of Corn.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 137/1 Land, or Lond, or Launde, in some places called a Loone, it is as much as two large Buts.
1767 Cries of Blood 7 He went down Campden field..about a land's length.
1791 W. Cowper Retirem. 421 Green balks and furrowed lands.
1793 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 5 83 The produce of one land or ridge of each crop.
1794 Har'st Rig xxv. 12 O' Gath'rers next, unruly-bands Do spread themselves athwart the Lands.
1819 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. ii. iii. 151 I made a sort of land with the plough, and made it pretty level at top.
1861 Times 4 Oct. 7/4 Fields laid out in six-yard lands with deep water-furrows for the sake of drainage.
8. Scottish. A building divided into flats or tenements for different households, each tenement being called a ‘house’.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > block of flats or apartments
land1456
tenement1681
tenement house1858
barrack1862
mansions1868
apartment house1874
apartment building1883
single-decker1896
block dwellings1899
project1932
apartment block1955
condominium1962
condo1964
multi1973
1456 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 111 A land liand of this sid the Hau.
1457 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 116 A land was his faderis liand in the burgh Peblis.
1466 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 26 He conquest a lande within your saide burgh.
1482 Act. Audit. (1839) 107/2 Diuerss housis..lying in the brugh of Edinburgh, on þe north side of þe strete..betuix þe land of Johne patonsone & þe land of Nicol spedy on þe est & west partes.
1555 Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 490/2 The annuellar hauand the grownd annuell vpone ony brint land quhilk is or beis reparellit.
1753 W. Maitland Hist. Edinb. ii. 140 The Buildings here, elsewhere called Houses, are denominated Lands.
1776 E. Topham Lett. from Edinb. 27 These buildings are divided by extremely thick partition walls, into large houses, which are called lands, and each story of a land is called a house. Every land has a common stair~case.
1779 H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. ii. i. 241 The houses were piled to an enormous height; some of them amounting to twelve stories. These were denominated lands.
1824 J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 110 I showed him down stairs; and just as he turned the corner of the next land, a man came rushing violently by him.
1858 M. Oliphant Laird of Norlaw I. 308 The ‘land’, or block of buildings in which it was placed, formed one side of a little street.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. i. 117 I remember an old ‘land’ in the High Street of Edinburgh.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xx. 238 A certain frail old gentlewoman..who dwelt in the top of a tall land on a strait close.
9. Technical uses.
a. [transferred from sense 7.] The space between the grooves of a rifle bore; also, the space between the furrows of a mill-stone. In wider use, esp. in Engineering: an area left between adjacent grooves, holes, or the like in any surface; e.g. that between the flutes of a twist drill or the grooves of a gramophone record, or the top of a tooth on various metal-cutting tools immediately behind the cutting edge.
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1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 202 These furrows and belts [in the bore of a cannon], technically called lands.
1864 Daily Tel. 15 June Some of the ‘lands’ being slightly injured, as might..have been expected with so delicate a system of rifling.
1881 Metal World No. 9. 131 The circular or angular lands and furrows [of a mill-stone].
1907 J. V. Woodworth Grinding & Lapping ii. 62 The flutes [of the reamers] were milled sharp—without land.
1907 J. V. Woodworth Grinding & Lapping ii. 63 Cutting the reamer sharp with no lands on the teeth.
1935 H. C. Bryson Gramophone Rec. iv. 81 The engineer has a table showing the widths and depths of the grooves and the amount of land for various cuts per inch.
1949 W. Baker & J. S. Kozacka Carbide Cutting Tools x. 213 The land is that portion of the tooth which is just behind the cutting edge.
1958 Proc. IRE 46 1063/2 The diffusion regions in the lands of the grooved surface [of the silicon] are then removed in a second step of lapping.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 255 The groove normally used for 78 rpm recordings... About 4 mils land between grooves, and a pitch of the order of 100–150 grooves per inch.
1964 S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes ix. 228 The lands run along the leading edge of the flutes and act as a guide in the hole already drilled.
1971 B. Scharf Engin. & its Lang. xi. 97 Studs. These are very useful headless fastening devices which are threaded on both ends, with an unthreaded section (land) in the middle.
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b. In a steam-engine, ‘the unperforated portion of the face-plate of a slide-valve’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
c. ‘The lap of the strakes in a clincher-built boat. Also called landing’ ( Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
ΚΠ
1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 28 The lans are where one straik overlaps another.
Phrases
P1. † c. In Middle English poetry used vaguely in certain expletive phrases: on or in land, to come to land. Cf. similar uses of town n. Obsolete.
a. law of the land ( †land's law: see land-law n. 1): see law n.1 land of promise (†promission, †repromission, †behest), promised land: see promise n., etc. land of cakes (Sc.): see cake n. 1b. See also Holy Land n.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [noun] > Middle East > Israel
land of behesta1200
Holy Land1297
land of promise (promission, repromission, behest)c1300
Jewryc1384
c1300 St. Brandan 76 Bifore the ȝates of Paradys in the Lond of Biheste.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) Pref. 1 Þe land of repromission, þat men calles þe Haly Land.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xvi. sig. e.viiv Duke Iosue..Ledynge the Isrehelytes to the lande of promyssyon.
1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxiv. 271 The Lowlanders call their Part of the Country the Land of Cakes.
a1846 J. Imlah Land o' Cakes (song) An' fill ye up and toast the cup, The land o' cakes for ever.
b. figurative in the sense ‘realm, domain’, as land of the leal (Sc.): the realm of the blessed departed, heaven. land of the living: the present life; in the land of the living (a Hebraism: see Psalm 27:13, 52:5; Isaiah 38:11, 53:8): alive.land of Nod: see nod n.1
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > opposed to dead
in the land of the livingc825
livingeOE
lifeeOE
quickeOE
aliveOE
livishc1175
alivesc1300
in lifea1325
with lifea1325
of life1392
breathinga1398
undeada1400
upon lifea1413
live1531
lifesome1582
undeceased1589
vivec1590
breathful1593
vivificent1598
on the hoof1818
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > realm or kingdom > sphere or domain of
landc825
kingdomc1390
universe1607
regiona1661
realma1771
c825 Vesp. Psalter cxiv. 9 In londe lifgendra.
c1230 Hali Meid. 13 Iþis world þat is icleopet lond of unlicnesse.
a1400 Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. (1892) 637/22 Ye shal not with-outen Strif fro this world passe to þe lond of lyf.
1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xi. 19 Let vs cut him off from the land of the liuing. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 99 As in the land of darkness yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death. View more context for this quotation
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 313 In the Land of Nature we are often out of our Knowledge.
1708 Lady Cave Let. in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. (1930) I. xiv. 266 Sir Thomas is glad to hear Col. Oughton is in the land of the living..having not heard a word from him.
1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xxi. 237 I'm glad to see you still in the land of the living.
1798 Lady Nairne Land of Leal (song) I'm wearin' awa' John,..To the land o' the leal.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 127 You had better have sent out Jedidiah Buxton, if he is still in the land of the living.
1819 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. J. Hodgson (1857) I. 223 I was frequently travelling in the Land of Nod.
1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 129 They dug a grave..in which they deposited the corpse, with a biscuit..and a small quantity of tobacco, as provisions for its journey in the land of spirits.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 9 There are unseen lands of knowledge and truth beyond the present.
1925 E. Phillpotts Voice from Dark ii. 22 And is Mr. Bitton still in the land of the living?
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [phrase] > here
on or in landc1175
the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [adverb] > oaths other than religious or obscene
on or in landc1175
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 65 To eni monne þet is on londe.
c1300 Harrow. Hell 46 Þritti winter and þridde half ȝer, Haui woned in londe her.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2793 Welawo to longe y lyue in londe.
c1390 Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) l. 551 Maken ichule Pees to londe come..And sauen al þe folk in londe.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Sir Thopas (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 175 His Steede..goth an Ambel in the way Ful softely and rounde In londe.
d. U.S. Substituted euphemistically for ‘Lord’: the land knows, Good land! Also, (for the) land's sake, land sakes, my land(s)).
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1846 Knickerbocker 27 18 Jedediah, for the land's sake, does my mouth blaze?
1848 J. F. Cooper Oak Openings I. v. 82 Land's sake! I've forgotten all about them barrels!
1851 S. Warner Wide Wide World I. xiv. 167 ‘But what are they called turnpikes for?’ ‘The land knows!—I don't’.
1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine xvi. 223 For land's sake dont tell Tempest.
1863 A. D. T. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood ii. 12 Land sakes, Miss Faith! I don't know what you mean.
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xi. 132 Good land! a man can't keep his functions regular on spring chickens thirteen hundred years old.
1894 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. 47 337/2 My lan', what de reason 't ain't enough?
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xiv. 141 ‘For the land's sake!’ gasped Marilla... ‘I believe the child is crazy.’
1913 A. Huxley Let. 30 July (1969) 51 The Americans..say Gee, whiz, bully, my lands, my soul, [etc.].
1916 A. Bennett Lion's Share xlv. 350 ‘My land!’ exclaimed Nick. ‘If he sees me here he'll think I've come on purpose to talk about him.’
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 50 Land sakes, it gives me the creeps to think of it.
1952 V. Wilkins King Reluctant i. iii. 45 But land's sake, how did he get into dat ole lonesome graveyard?
1974 K. Benton Craig & Tunisian Tangle xiii. 180 We've only got another week, for land's sake.
P2.
a. Nautical. †to take land: to come to land; to land, go ashore. land to: just within sight of land, when at sea. †to raise land: to sail with the land just within sight. to lay the land: to lose sight of land. †to set (the) land: to take the bearings of land. land ho! a cry of sailors when first sighting land. land shut in (see quot. 1753).
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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > reach land or port
arrivec1275
to take landc1330
uprive1338
to run up?c1450
land1748
society > travel > travel by water > [interjection] > cry on sighting land
land ho!c1330
land toc1330
society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > set out on a voyage > sail beyond sight of land
to lay the landc1330
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > take a sight or observation > take bearings of the land
to set (the) landc1330
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > sail along or near coast > sail within sight of land
to raise landc1330
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 59 Whan þe kyng wist, þat þei had taken land.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 551 Quhill thai..On vest half, toward dunfermlyne, Tuk land.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlii. 528 They..aryuyd at the porte of Marseyle there they toke londe.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Surgir, to arriue, take land, goe ashore.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 43 One to the top to looke out for land, the man cries out Land to; which is iust so farre as a kenning, or a man may..see the land. And to lay a land is to saile from it iust so farre as you can see it.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 28 We hull'd off, North North-East, but still raised land.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 21 When we set Land, some this, some that do guess.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Land shut in, at sea. When another point of land hinders the sight of that which a ship came from, then they say the land is shut in. Setting the Land, at sea, is observing by the compass how it bears.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Terre qui fuit, double-land, or land shut-in behind a cape or promontory.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iv. 8 A man on the forecastle called out ‘Land ho!’
b. how the land lies: primarily Nautical (see quot. 1699); now chiefly figurative = what is the state of affairs.
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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew How lies the Land? How stands the Reckoning?
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. vii. 101 Several gentlemen..had a mind to feel how the land lay.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. vii. 99 Uncle Charles's eyes had discovered how the land lay as regarded Rose and himself.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive.† land-cape n. Obsolete† land-ground n. Obsolete† land-people n. Obsolete
land-belt n.
ΚΠ
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. viii. 78 I am obliged to follow the tortuous land-belt.
land-boom n.
ΚΠ
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xix, in Scribner's Mag. Mar. 323/1 There was some rumour of a Napa land-boom.
ΚΠ
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Landcape, an end of land that stretcheth further into the Sea then other parts of the Continent thereabouts.
land certificate n.
ΚΠ
1838 in Indiana Mag. Hist. (1926) XXII. 451 Gentle had settled that he was to pay in land and made an assignment on a land certificate.
1967 E. Rudinger Wills & Probate 97 A week or so later he receives from the registry the land certificate, which is substantially the same as the charge certificate, but with the very important difference of having had the details of the mortgage removed from it.
land-claimant n.
ΚΠ
1798 I. Allen Hist. Vermont 27 These severities were used..to prevent aid being given to the land claimants of New York.
land classification n.
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1930 U.S. Dept. Agric. Yearbk. 1929 39 These considerations point to the need for a public policy of economic land classification.
1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 27/7 The report's principal authors were Angus Hill, a specialist in land classification, Professor David Love and Professor Douglas Lacate.
land-crescent n.
ΚΠ
1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 48 The land-crescent that forms the bay.
land deal adj.
ΚΠ
1974 Guardian 11 Apr. 1 Mrs Marcia Williams, Mr Wilson's private secretary, said last night she would not resign over the land deals affair.
land-dealer n.
ΚΠ
1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xxxi. 279 Great Injun pacificator and land-dealer.
land-development n.
ΚΠ
1895 Law Times 13 July 254 If the Company is a Land-development one.
land distribution n.
ΚΠ
1965 P. Jimack tr. L. Chevalier in D. V. Glass & D. E. C. Eversley Population in Hist. iii. 75 I have myself tried to study the evolution of the population in three cantons of Vendée..in terms of land-distribution and the social and religious structure.
1968 R. A. Lyttleton Myst. Solar Syst. vi. 213 The configuration of the land-distribution could also have been somewhat different at the time of fall.
land-estate n.
ΚΠ
1690 Mor. Ess. relat. Pres. Times iii. 41 The Enjoyment of Land Estates.
ΚΠ
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 7 Londground by pool or riuer.
land improvement adj.
ΚΠ
1849 Hansard Commons 4 May 1266 An advance of money..under the Land Improvement Act.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 554/2 The number and amount of loans..under the Land Improvement Acts from 1847 to 1900.
1909 Daily Chron. 14 Sept. 5/6 The other kind of banks are rent charge and land-improvement banks.
land-labour n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > other types of punishment > [noun] > working on the land
land-labour1776
1776 E. Burke Let. 14 Aug. Condemned to Land Labour at the last Assizes for this County.
land lottery n.
ΚΠ
1808 T. Ashe Trav. Amer. iv. 34 He could purchase a share in a capital house, or he might buy a land-lottery.
land market n.
ΚΠ
1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 5 Standing round; i.e., watching the land market for values.
1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. iv. 171 There is evidence indeed for something approaching a land-market in late Anglo-Saxon England.
land-mass n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > land mass > [noun]
land-mass1856
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. i. 16 The probable extension of the land-masses of Greenland to the Far North.
1881 J. W. Judd Volcanoes 287 The land-masses of the globe.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > collectively
land-peoplec1440
peasantry1551
country people?1556
countryfolk1557
rusticity1621
ruraltya1641
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > [noun] > collectively
land-peoplec1440
country people?1556
countryfolk1557
ruraltya1641
rusticity1833
c1440 Eng. Conq. Irel. xxxvii. 91 The londe-Pepill that crystyn shold be.
land piracy n.
ΚΠ
1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 668 It is positively a nuisance that borders upon land-piracy.
land-price n.
ΚΠ
1898 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 498/2 Immigrants were pouring into the state, and land-prices were rising.
land question n.
ΚΠ
1830 Deb. Congr. U.S. 26 Feb. 210/1 The final adjustment of the land question.
1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. viii. 329 In connection with the land-question, the situation is more complicated.
land reclamation n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun]
amendment1483
improvement1549
improvinga1563
recoverya1632
mendment1644
cultivation1791
reclaim1799
reclamation1810
intaking1812
redemption1812
clearing1821
reclaimment1852
land reclamation1881
breaking-in1891
greening1955
1881 W. D. Seymour (title) Waste land reclamation and peasant proprietorship with practical suggestions for the establishment of a land bank in Ireland.
1939 U.S. Dept. Agric. Yearbk. 1938 1171 Land reclamation, making land capable of more intensive use by changing its character, environment, or both through operations requiring collective effort.
1955 Times 1 July 13/3 An excellent account of reclamation on Exmoor Forest, a book written con amore as he was deeply interested both in land reclamation and in Exmoor.
land reform n.
ΚΠ
1940 Economist 6 July 12/2 The land reform [in Transylvania] which had aroused such bitter protest was admittedly more severe..than in the Old Kingdom.
1955 Times 4 July 8/4 His post in the Tokyo Embassy as an expert on land reform.
land-rent n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > income derived from land or property
purchase1516
rentalc1535
land-revenue1689
land-rent1706
1706 in Arbuthnot's Misc. Wks. (1751) II. 192 Paying high Interest for Money, which Land-rents cannot discharge.
1734 J. Swift Reasons against Settling Tyth of Hemp 8 The Land-Rents of Ireland are computed to about two Millions.
land-revenue n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > income derived from land or property
purchase1516
rentalc1535
land-revenue1689
land-rent1706
1689 London Gaz. No. 2472/4 The Office of Receiver of the Land-Revenues for the Counties of Suffolk and Cambridge.
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Proc. Parl. 15/2 Land revenues to the amount of 191,042l.
land-robber n.
ΚΠ
1845 T. J. Green Texian Exped. xvii. 319 The old governor came out in the greatest rage..to know what that land robber meant by insulting him in that manner.
land room n.
ΚΠ
1871 Leisure Hour 8 Apr. 223/1 An aeronaut cannot get far enough from the sea in England, and requires all the land-room of a continent to make his voyage.
1960 Tamarack Rev. xiv. 6 The rough half-moon of islands on the western periphery of the North Atlantic contains under 8,000 square miles of landroom for three and a half million people.
land-sculpture n.
ΚΠ
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vii. 922 A chief element in the progress of land-sculpture, is geological structure.
land-security n.
ΚΠ
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 17 The Land Security was so uncertain and bad, and it was so troublesome and chargeable getting their Moneys again when they had occasion to use it.
land speculating n.
ΚΠ
1816 U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. 10 367 Now we shall learn something about Land Speculating presently.
land speculation n.
ΚΠ
1807 Deb. Congr. U.S. 6 Oct. (1852) 605 We made a purchase of a single tract of land together. Perhaps you call that land speculations.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase x. 65 Mr. Glenville's partner in certain land speculations.
1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) ii. vii. 121 He was soon permitted to land, and a great land speculation ensued.
1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham xx. 366 He's been dabbling in..patent-rights, land speculations.
1974 D. Francis Knock Down xiv. 172 It was like property development and land speculation. You could make a great deal of money without breaking the law.
land-spit n.
ΚΠ
1865 Sat. Rev. 5 Aug. 182 Two landspits and three bays are ignored by Van de Velde.
land-strip n.
ΚΠ
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 10 To that land-strip waters wash.
land taxation n.
ΚΠ
1794 D. Robertson Tour through Isle of Man v. 37 Here the oppression of game-laws, land-taxation, and excise-establishment are utterly unknown.
1883 Peel City Guardian 8 Dec. 4/1 Land Taxation.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 19 May 2/1 The land-taxation proposals of the Budget would affect them.
land-tenant n.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > leaseholder or tenant
kindly tenanta1325
tenant1377
mailer1392
farmer1414
renter1444
takerc1450
fee-farmer1468
lessee1495
mail-man?a1500
tacksman1533
land-tenant1543
rentaller1553
fermerera1572
tenementer1574
mail-payer1597
inholdera1599
feu-farmer1609
leaseholder1858
leaser1877
1543 tr. Act 14 Edw. III stat. i. c. 3 The heyres executours, and lande tenauntes of suche ministers and receyuours.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Qq4v/2 Land tenent.
land-tenure n.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun]
tenure1436
investiture1549
land-tenure1876
1876 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. (ed. 2) i. 2 The main features of land-tenure.
land title n.
ΚΠ
1812 J. McDonogh Papers (1898) 11 The people..of Florida are..in a dissatisfied state, arising from this uncertainty in which their land titles are placed.
1815 D. Drake Nat. & Statist. View Cincinnati i. 30 The security of land titles.
1838 Southern Lit. Messenger 4 796 Some partial remuneration was indeed promptly bestowed upon the officers of the revolution, in the form of land-titles and half-pay.
1936 Discovery May 131/2 Land titles have taken nearly 20 years or more to prepare.
land use adj.
ΚΠ
1935 Discovery Aug. 223/1 A careful land use survey.
1961 Listener 7 Sept. 347/2 Recent scientific advance in land-use policy in Africa.
1971 New Scientist 21 Jan. 134/2 We are ahead of most countries in democratic land-use planning.
land utilization n.
ΚΠ
1935 Discovery Aug. 220/1 Land Utilisation is the problem of the moment.
1936 Archit. Rev. 80 1 (title) The Land Utilization Survey of Britain: the first part of the report.
land-wave n.
ΚΠ
1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele 35 Gentle ridges..not unlike the wrinkles or land waves behind S. Paul de Loanda.
land-wealth n.
ΚΠ
1845 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 343 (note) So as to lessen the difference in land-wealth.
land work n. and adj.
ΚΠ
1945 R. M. Lockley Islands round Brit. 47 Much of the landwork is done by hand with rude implements.
1971 Daily Tel. 19 Nov. 13/1 By 1942, the NUS had 1,000 students in its summer landwork camps.
b. Objective and objective genitive.
(a) † land-tilie n. Obsolete
land-buyer n.
ΚΠ
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 209 A ledere of louedayes and a lond biggere.
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Hecyra iii. v, in Terence in Eng. 360 They..are no great land-biers.
land-catcher n.
ΚΠ
a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) v. sig. H3v Thou most reverent Land catcher.
land-ditching n.
ΚΠ
1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. iv. 116 Land-ditching is done at different prices.
land-finding n.
ΚΠ
1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 2 A friend..became quite a proficient in the mysteries of land-finding.
land-hirer n.
ΚΠ
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Lande hyrer, redemptor.
land-hunter n.
ΚΠ
1894 Outing June 172 Four or five rough-looking men—evidently land-hunters.
land-locator adj. and n.
ΚΠ
1816 U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1915) 10 364 Those present Land Locaters Surveys will hold good until the former can be Established.
1839 Congr. Globe 23 Jan. Appendix 265 The rifle and his faithful dog were the indispensable companions of the Land locator.
1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 May 5/1 The tragedy..occurred..when two land locators..came to grief on the Bear River glacier.
land-monger n.
ΚΠ
1647 C. Harvey Schola Cordis vii. 7 The greedy landmunger.
land-monopolist n.
ΚΠ
1798 I. Allen Nat. & Polit. Hist. Vermont 21 The persecutions of the settlers were carried on by the Governor and his land-monopolists.
land-nationalization n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > ownership of land > public
land-nationalization1882
1882 A. R. Wallace (title) Land Nationalization. Its necessity and its aims.
land-nationalizer n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > ownership of land > public > advocate of
land-nationalizer1884
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Mar. 3/1 One point..will..be seized upon by the land nationalizers.
land-occupier n.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > [noun]
maneOE
wonnera1340
dwellera1382
livera1382
indweller1382
resiant1405
inhabitor1413
inhabitera1425
tenanta1425
abider1440
citizenc1450
inhabitant1462
resident1463
denizen1474
inhabitator?a1475
mansionarya1475
habitant1490
incolera1513
occupier?1542
land-occupier1576
residentiary1581
burgessa1586
incolant1596
consistorian1599
ledger1600
resider1632
residenter1644
habitator1646
endwellera1649
incolary1652
incolist1657
insetter1712
houser1871
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun]
tenantc1330
landholder1414
terre-tenant1439
manurerc1500
tenurer1660
land-occupier1829
1576 Act 18 Eliz. c. 10 §10 All the Inhabitants and Land-occupiers within the whole Isle.
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 135 The relation between land-owner and land-occupier has undergone an unkindly alteration.
land-planning n.
ΚΠ
1936 Discovery Feb. 49/1 There has been a certain amount of ‘land-planning’, though not on the scale undertaken in the United States.
1961 E. A. Powdrill Vocab. Land Planning ii. 22 Thus, in administering the same aims of land planning, the instrument used for expressing them differs in the fundamental aspect of policymaking.
land-proprietor n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner
landlorda1000
lordOE
lairdc1379
mailerc1485
landman1562
heritor1597
landowner1742
land-proprietor1815
territorialist1845
1815 L. Simond Jrnl. Tour Great Brit. I. 172 The land-proprietor does not get more than three per cent.
land-roller n.
ΚΠ
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Land-roller, one for leveling ground and mashing clods in getting land into tilth for crops.
land-seeker n. and adj.
ΚΠ
1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs iii. 37 By the time he had ridden half a mile, he overtook the land~seeker.
1946 C. McWilliams Southern Calif. Country 126 They sold prospective settlers so-called ‘land-seekers' tickets’, under an arrangement whereby the fare could later be applied on the purchase of railroad land.
land-speculator n.
ΚΠ
1798 I. Allen Nat. & Polit. Hist. Vermont 24 Lawyers and land speculators called on Mr. Allen.
1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) ii. iii. 96 Like all land-speculators, he was much given to dreaming.
1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age l. 456 He might have been a ‘railroad man’, or a politician, or a land-speculator.
1948 Reader's Digest May 124/1 He was ill-educated, selfmade, an incurable land speculator.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker
hindc1230
land-tiliec1275
fieldera1425
fieldmana1425
land-tiller?a1500
field labourer1610
scullogue1665
fieldworker1691
field hand1774
spalpeen1780
land-worker1782
farmhand1794
field woman1813
grass comber1825
cowman1828
chamar1858
guajiro1901
shamba boy1907
cowman-gardener1908
tractorman1946
hoggler1986
farm worker2017
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > tiller of soil
delverc888
tillman940
tiliec1000
acremanOE
earth-tilieOE
land-tiliec1275
tillerc1300
earth-tillera1325
diggerc1400
land-herd1490
earth-tilther1495
tilther1495
land-tiller?a1500
manurerc1500
tillsman1561
tilth-man1638
cultivator1661
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7409 We scullen..wurðen mils liðe wið þa lond-tilien.
land-tiller n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker
hindc1230
land-tiliec1275
fieldera1425
fieldmana1425
land-tiller?a1500
field labourer1610
scullogue1665
fieldworker1691
field hand1774
spalpeen1780
land-worker1782
farmhand1794
field woman1813
grass comber1825
cowman1828
chamar1858
guajiro1901
shamba boy1907
cowman-gardener1908
tractorman1946
hoggler1986
farm worker2017
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > tiller of soil
delverc888
tillman940
tiliec1000
acremanOE
earth-tilieOE
land-tiliec1275
tillerc1300
earth-tillera1325
diggerc1400
land-herd1490
earth-tilther1495
tilther1495
land-tiller?a1500
manurerc1500
tillsman1561
tilth-man1638
cultivator1661
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 804/34 Hic cultor, a londtyllere.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxviiiv Than good londe tyllers gynne shape for the erthe..to bringe forthe more corne.
1895 Q. Rev. Apr. 555 The interests of the landowner and the land-tiller became antagonistic.
land-tilling n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun]
earth-tilthOE
earth-tillingOE
tilling?c1225
delving1377
laboura1393
land-tillingc1420
culturec1450
tilthing1495
labouring1523
manurea1547
manuring1550
digging1552
cultivation1553
tilth1565
manurance1572
agriculture1583
nithering1599
culturation1606
gainor1607
delvage1610
agricolation1623
gainage1625
cultivage1632
manurementa1639
groundwork1655
fieldwork1656
proscission1656
field labour1661
manuragea1670
subduing1776
management1799
subjugation1800
geopony1808
clodhopping1847
agriculturism1885
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 528 Donge of fowlis is ful necessary To londtiling.
land trader n.
ΚΠ
1776 in Coll. Vermont Hist. Soc. I. 17 The Monopolizing Land Trader of New York..did present a petition.
land-worker n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker
hindc1230
land-tiliec1275
fieldera1425
fieldmana1425
land-tiller?a1500
field labourer1610
scullogue1665
fieldworker1691
field hand1774
spalpeen1780
land-worker1782
farmhand1794
field woman1813
grass comber1825
cowman1828
chamar1858
guajiro1901
shamba boy1907
cowman-gardener1908
tractorman1946
hoggler1986
farm worker2017
1782 T. Pownall Treat. Study Antiq. 140 The..state..of the land-worker.
1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids 192 When the borders of Europe began to be settled and cultivated by the land~workers.
1887 Andover (Mass.) Rev. VIII. 154 Only the tradesworkers and the landworkers are specially considered.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 72/3 Land~workers in the Thirsk and Easingwold districts of Yorkshire.
(b) In adjectives, as land-devouring, land-eating, land-scourging, land-tilling, land-visiting, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [adjective]
land-tilling1393
colonicala1641
improving1650
farming1673
farmering1753
minifundista1969
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ix. 140 Ȝe ben wastours..that deuouren That leel land-tylynge men leelliche byswynken.
1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 12 These and such like Land-devouring enormities.
1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 48 Such a Land-scourging rod.
1814 J. Taylor Arator (ed. 2) 128 If an abundance of labour caused a land killing agricultural system..Flanders should be a wilderness.
1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xl. 315 Walberswick is a decayed port, a victim of the land-eating sea.
1883 C. F. Holder in Harper's Mag. Dec. 107/2 Jumping and land-visiting fishes.
1891 Cent. Mag. Feb. 535 The promise..was broken when it became important to conciliate land-thieving squatters.
c. Instrumental, in adjectives as land-penned, land sheltered, land surrounded, etc.
ΚΠ
1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 479 Land-surrounded waves.
1883 C. A. Moloney W. Afr. Fisheries 27 Grassy banks of land-sheltered waters.
1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 453/1 Land-penned rivers.
d. Similative.
land-like adj.
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the world > the earth > land > [adjective]
terrestrial1628
terrestrious1650
land-like1804
1804 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 470 This [the green on the water], though occasioned by the impurity of the nigh shore..forms a home scene: it is warm and landlike.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam ci. 158 We steer'd her toward a crimson cloud That landlike slept along the deep. View more context for this quotation
e. Locative, as land-growing.
ΚΠ
1911 F. O. Bower Plant Life on Land 45 The Fern-plant is structurally a land-growing plant.
C2.
a. General attributive passing into adj., with the sense ‘belonging or attached to, or characteristic of, the land; living, situated, taking place, or performed upon land (as opposed to water or sea); terrestrial’: as in land-admiral, land-battery, land-battle, land-communication, land-company, land-engine, land-fight, land-goods, land-gunner, †land-herd, land-journey, land-life, land-monster, land-passage, land-pilot, land-plant, land-power, land-prospect, land-siren, land-soldier, land-spout, land-trade, land-travel, land-wages, land-war, land warfare, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military power > [noun]
swordc1000
strengthOE
powerc1300
force1303
land-power1490
bayonet1775
sword-arm1838
sabre1851
sword-craft1855
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > tiller of soil
delverc888
tillman940
tiliec1000
acremanOE
earth-tilieOE
land-tiliec1275
tillerc1300
earth-tillera1325
diggerc1400
land-herd1490
earth-tilther1495
tilther1495
land-tiller?a1500
manurerc1500
tillsman1561
tilth-man1638
cultivator1661
1490 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 1. §1 If any Captain..give them not their full Wages..except for Jackets for them that receive Land-wages.
1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. B3v The fields In which dame Cynthia her landheards fed.
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. vi. 285 Impatient of land-life, they lanch againe into their water.
1625 Purchas (title) Purchas his Pilgrimes contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells.
1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) vi. 51 I intreated him for a commission and patent for a land company in Flanders.
1637 J. Milton Comus 11 To find out that..Would overtask the best land-pilots art.
1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 488 Their Land-voyage from Pekin to Goa.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 4 Apr. (1974) VIII. 149 I made him merry with telling him how many land-Admiralls we are to have this year.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. To Rdr. A most useful Instrument for all Land and Sea Gunners.
1682 T. Southerne Loyal Brother iii, in Wks. (1721) I. 44 Curse on these land-syrens!
1694 London Gaz. No. 3023/3 They..are to be provided for in their way as Land-Soldiers are in their march.
1695 M. Prior Eng. Ballad 4 The Water-Nymphs are all unkind, We hope the Land-Nymphs are not so.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. v. 289 Anchoring at Sea, remote from all Land-Prospect.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 395 The nature..of these land spouts.
1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation p. vi Roads for land-communication and carriage.
1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 316 Of the lords of the Admiralty, three of the sea officers, and one of the land lords, were efficient officers.
1822 Brunel Specif. Patent 4683 3 The common governor usually applied to land engines cannot act regularly at sea.
1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. vi. 335 Being exposed to the fire of the land-batteries as well as of the shipping.
1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece X. ii. lxxxii. 665 If the preparations for land-warfare were thus stupendous, those for sea-warfare were fully equal if not superior.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 300 The foliage of land-plants.
1928 Observer 1 Apr. 14/3 Sea-power took the place of land-power in the sixteenth century.
1957 Encycl. Brit. X. 182 h/1 In theory a branch of geopolitics,..geo-strategy treated warfare as total, embracing the entire populations and resources of the contesting states... It helped to make Germany the first country to realize that airpower could take a position alongside seapower and landpower.
1962 Listener 29 Mar. 543/1 A world which, seen from Moscow, is divided into three or four land masses, and a number of similar areas which can be dominated by land power.
b.
(a) Prefixed to names of animals to indicate that they are terrestrial in their habits, and esp. to distinguish them from aquatic animals of the same name.† land-cormorant n. Obsolete† land-dove n. Obsolete† land-eft n. Obsolete† land-pullen n. Obsolete
land-animal n.
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the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > terrestrial animal
land-beast1601
land-animal1691
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 54 So necessary is it [sc. air] for us and other Land-Animals.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. viii. 217 Besides these dangerous land-animals, the sea..is infested with great numbers of alligators.
land-beast n.
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the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > terrestrial animal
land-beast1601
land-animal1691
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 191 Let vs returne now to discourse of other liuing creatures; and first of land-beasts.
land-bird n.
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the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > land-bird
land-bird1570
land-pullen1601
land-fowl1669
ground-bird1840
1570 Order for Swans in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 959 The..custome of this Realme..dothe allow to every Owner of such ground..to take one Land-bird.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii. 343 The sea-birds sang as they streamed out into the ocean, and the land-birds as they built among the boughs.
ΚΠ
a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. iv. 4 Land-Cormorants may Challeng them for food.
land-dog n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > defined by actions or habitat
port-dogOE
port-houndOE
cochour14..
water dogc1400
sheep-biter1548
holdfast1600
devil dog1642
land-dog1665
junkyard dog1936
1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 28 Curs, Spaniels, Water-dogs, and Land-dogs.
ΚΠ
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 319 Saw some Widgeons, and many Land-Doves.
land-dragon n.
ΚΠ
1894 St. G. Mivart in Cosmopolitan Jan. 344/1 The enormous land-dragons that lived by rapine.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Urodela or Caudata > [noun] > family Salamandridae (newts) > newt > land newt
land-eft1768
1768 G. White Let. 18 June in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 50 The water-eft, or newt, is only the larva of the land-eft.
land-fowl n.
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the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > land-bird
land-bird1570
land-pullen1601
land-fowl1669
ground-bird1840
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 304 If Land-Fowl gather towards the Water.
land-mammifera n.
ΚΠ
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 96 The annihilation of certain genera of land-mammifera.
land-mouse n.
ΚΠ
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 403 A certain wel, wherein there keep ordinarily land-mice.
land-mollusca n.
ΚΠ
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iv. 100 On the land there are some hermaphrodites, as land-mollusca and earth-worms.
land-molluscan adj.
ΚΠ
1881 Nature 26 May 84/2 The land-molluscan fauna of Socotra.
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the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > land-bird
land-bird1570
land-pullen1601
land-fowl1669
ground-bird1840
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 507 Hens, and other land pullen.
land-reptile n.
ΚΠ
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 643/1 Bolsón tortoise, Gopherus flavomarginatus. Documented in 1888 but recognized as a distinct species only in 1959, this is the largest land reptile in North America.
land-scorpion n.
ΚΠ
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxviii. 315 I narrowly escaped being bitten by a land-scorpion. This insect is of the size of a small cray-fish.
land-spaniel n. also figurative
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > spaniel > land or water
findera1425
water spaniel1558
land-spaniel1576
1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 19 Land spaniels.
1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet f. 55v He would proue..a good land-spaniel or setter for a hungry Courtier, to smell him out a thousand pound sute, for a hundred pound profit.
a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) iv. i. 79 Clowne. Proceed sea gull. Ffisher. thus Land spaniell: no man can say this is my ffishe till hee ffinde it in his nett.
land-toad n.
ΚΠ
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 105 It is only the Rubeth, the land toad, which has the property of sucking.
(b) † land-martin n. Obsolete (see quots.).† land-urchin n. Obsolete the hedgehog.† land-winkle n. Obsolete a snail.
land-beetle n. a terrestrial predatory beetle, one of the group Geadephaga.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Adephaga (carnivorous beetles) > Geadephaga (terrestrial) > member of
land-beetle1836
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 888/1 This division into lobes occurs in most of the land-beetles.
land-bug n. a bug of the group Geocores.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of group Geocores
land-bugc1865
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. II. 184/1 The Geocores or Land-bugs.
land chelonian n. a tortoise.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > tortoise or land turtle
tortoise1398
shellpad1553
shell-paddock1565
land-turtle1697
land terrapin1709
land-tortoise1774
land chelonian1880
1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 249 The Land Chelonians.
land-cod n. a kind of catfish, the mathemeg, Amiurus borealis (Cent. Dict.).
ΚΠ
1836 J. Richardson Fauna Boreali-Americana III. 135 The mathemeg or land cod of the residents of the fur countries is taken sparingly.
land-crocodile n. †(a) ? meant to designate the cayman n.; (b) the sand-monitor, Psammosaurus arenarius (Cent. Dict.).
ΚΠ
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 159/2 He beareth Azure, the Bresilian Land Crocodile, proper.
land-leech n. a leech of the genus Hæmodipsa, abounding in Ceylon.
ΚΠ
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon I. ii. vii. 302 Of all the plagues which beset the traveller in the rising grounds of Ceylon, the most detested are the land leeches.
land-lobster n.
ΚΠ
1897 Westm. Gaz. 20 Aug. 2/1 Huge ‘land lobsters’—the ‘robber crab’ of the Pacific Islands.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Hirundinidae > genus Riparia (sand-martin)
bank martnet1544
western1553
bank swallow1633
water swallow1633
bank martin1668
sand martin1668
land-martin1674
shore-bird1676
sand-swallow1797
river swallow1817
shore swallow1869
1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 86 The Land-martin or Shore-bird: Hirundo riparia.
land moccasin n. (see moccasin n. 3).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > genus Agkistrodon > agkistrodon atrofuscus (cotton-mouth)
highland moccasin1765
water moccasin1765
cotton-mouth1832
land moccasin1836
1836 M. Holley Texas v. 104 Land and water moccasin..are the only venomous snakes, besides the rattlers, found in Texas.
land otter n. ‘any ordinary otter of the subfamily Lutrinæ, inhabiting rivers and lakes, as distinguished from the sea-otter, Enhydris marina’ (Cent. Dict.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Lutra (otter)
ottereOE
badger1591
river-dog1610
water weasel1611
dog-fisher1655
water dog1655
river otter1780
land otter1844
water wolf1907
1844 D. Lee & J. H. Frost Ten Years in Oregon vi. 71 Beaver was valued at two dollars per skin,..land otter at fifty cents.
1947 V. H. Cahalane Mammals N. Amer. 200 The river or land otter has the outline of a small seal or a very big weasel.
land pike n. (a) = hellbender n. 1; (b) an inferior type of pig.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > amphibians > order Urodela or Caudata > [noun] > family Cryptobranchidae > cryptobranchus alleghaniensis (hellbender)
land pike1687
hellbender1812
mud-devil1825
water-puppy1832
Menopoma1835
menopome1842
man-eater1859
ground-puppy1863
mud puppy1877
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > prize-winning or inferior
prize pig1791
land pike1842
1687 R. Blome Present State Isles & Territories in Amer. 56 A Land-Pike is another strange Reptile, so called from its likeness to that Fish; but instead of Fins, it hath four Feet.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Land-Pike, a Creature in America, like the Fish of the same Name, but having Legs instead of Fins.
1841 Cultivator VIII. 152 I am anxious that he should soon get rid of his land-pikes and alligators.
1842 Cultivator X. 37 Hogs, landpike variety, are so cheap.
1856 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 7 716 The Suffolk swine..are of the same descent as the long-nosed, slabsided land pike, so often seen in the highways.
1890 Amer. Notes & Queries 5 21/2 I think the term land-pike more frequently designates a thin, lank, half-wild swine.
land-shell n. a terrestrial mollusk or its shell.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > terrestrial
land-shell1853
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc
ungulaa1382
mantlea1475
trunk1661
diaphragm1665
lid1681
operculum1681
ear1688
beard1697
corslet1753
scar1793
opercle1808
pleura1826
pallium1834
byssus1835
cephalic ganglia1835–6
opercule1836
lingual ribbon1839
tube1839
cloak1842
test1842
collar1847
testa1847
rachis1851
uncinus1851
land-shell1853
mantle cavity1853
mesopodium1853
propodium1853
radula1853
malacology1854
gill comb1861
pallial cavity1862
tongue-tootha1877
mesopode1877
odontophore1877
pallial chamber1877
shell-gland1877
rasp1879
protopodium1880
ctenidium1883
osphradium1883
shell-sac1883
tooth-ribbon1883
megalaesthete1885
rachidian1900
scungille1953
tentacle-sheath-
1853 Zoologist 11 4127 In land-shells..the locality would not be easily surpassed.
1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life v. 76 The air-breathing mollusca, commonly called land-shells.
land-slater n. a terrestrial isopod crustacean, a woodlouse.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Oniscidae or genus Oniscus
lockchestera1400
sow14..
lugdora1425
louk?a1450
lockchestc1450
cheslip1530
palmer1538
chestworm1544
Robin Goodfellow's louse1552
monk's peason1558
cheslock1574
porcelet1578
swine louse1579
hog-louse1580
multiped1601
kitchen-bob1610
woodlouse1611
loop1612
millipede1612
timber-sow1626
cheeselog1657
sow-louse1658
thurse-louse1658
onisc1661
monkey pea1682
slater1684
slatter1739
sow-bug1750
Oniscus1806
pig louse1819
hob-thrush1828
land-slater1863
pig's louse1888
wall-louse1899
oniscoid1909
chucky-pig1946
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 632 The Land-slater (Oniscus asellus).
land-snail n. a snail of the family Helicidæ.
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a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 151 A Land-Snail, incrusted over with..fine Stoney Matter.
land-sole n. the common red slug, Arion rufus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Limacidae > arion rufus
land-sole1854
1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 168 The land-soles occasionally devour animal substances.
land-tortoise n.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > tortoise or land turtle
tortoise1398
shellpad1553
shell-paddock1565
land-turtle1697
land terrapin1709
land-tortoise1774
land chelonian1880
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 380 The land tortoise will live in the water; and..the sea turtle can be fed upon land.
1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 293 In Mr. Clark's garden were several land-tortoises (Testudo clausa, Say).
land-turtle n. any tortoise or turtle of terrestrial habits.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > tortoise or land turtle
tortoise1398
shellpad1553
shell-paddock1565
land-turtle1697
land terrapin1709
land-tortoise1774
land chelonian1880
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 109 We refresht our selves very well, both with Land and Sea Turtles.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxiii. 163 The land-turtle of Surinam is not more than eighteen or twenty inches in length.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Erinaceidae (hedgehog)
ilc897
iles pil?c1225
irchepilc1290
irchinc1290
hurcheonc1325
urchina1340
thorn-hog1340
hedgehoga1450
herisson?1590
land-urchin1603
hedge-piga1616
hotchi-witchi1843
porcupine1847
furze-pig1865
gypsies' pig1928
tiggy1938
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 973 The hedghoge, or land urchin.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > member of
sneg1340
limacea1492
cochle?1527
house snail1562
shell-snail1600
hoddy-dod1601
land-winkle1601
hodmandod1626
snag1674
vine-snail1829
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 218 Of the Viper, Land-winkles or Snailes, and Lizards.
C3. See also land form n., land-ship n.† land-bat n. Obsolete a measure of land of varying length.† land-board n. Obsolete (after seaboard) the borders of a country.Apparently only in the writings of Thomas Jefferson.† land-born adj. Obsolete native.† land-carrack n. Obsolete (a) ? a coasting vessel; (b) = land-frigate n. † land-coal n. Obsolete coal transported by land.† land-evil n. Obsolete (a) an epidemic; (b) ? the falling sickness, epilepsy.† landfang n. Obsolete holding-ground for an anchor.† land-feather n. Obsolete a bay or inlet.† land-fish n. Obsolete (a) ? freshwater fish; (b) a fish that lives on land; hence, an unnatural creature.† land-frigate n. Obsolete a harlot, strumpet.† land-good n. [ < Dutch landgoed] Obsolete a landed estate.† land-ill n. Obsolete an epidemic (cf. land-evil n.).† land-leak n. Obsolete ? a leak produced in a vessel before starting on a voyage.† land-lurch v. Obsolete to rob of land (see lurch v.1).† land-male n. Obsolete ‘a reserved rent charged upon a piece of land by the chief lord of the fee, or a subsequent mesne owner’ (Wright Provinc. Dict. 1857); also attributive land-male-book.† land-march n. Obsolete territory bordering on another country. † land-mate n. Obsolete (see quot.).† land-mead n. Obsolete a tract of meadow land.† land-neck n. Obsolete an isthmus.† land-oath n. Obsolete (see quot.).† land-peerage n. Obsolete (see quot.).† land-pole n. Obsolete the pole or perch. † land-raker n. Obsolete (see foot land-raker n. at foot n. and int. Compounds 3). † land-rush n. Obsolete a landslip.† land-scot n. Obsolete a tax on land formerly levied in some parishes for the maintenance of the church.† land-sharking n. New Zealand Obsolete (see quot. 1839) Obsolete.† land-speech n. Obsolete a language, tongue.† land-stall n. Obsolete a staith or landing-place.† land-stead adj. U.S. Obsolete provided with landed property.† land-strait n. Obsolete an isthmus.† land-strife n. Obsolete strife with respect to land, agrarian contention.† land-turn n. Obsolete a land-breeze.† land-water adj. Obsolete amphibious, nondescript.† land-wine n. [compare Dutch landwijn, German landwein] Obsolete wine of native or home growth.
land abutment n. the terminal pier at the landward end of a bridge.
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1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 7 It was composed of twenty Arches, nineteen Piers, and two Land Abutments.
land-agency n. the occupation or profession of a land-agent.
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society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > [noun] > management on behalf of another or stewardship > specifically of an estate
land-agency1831
estate management1915
1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants iii. 316 Hillsboro'..contains..a land agency office by John Tillson, Esq.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 110 The requirement that he should be experienced in land-agency, may seem in itself not unreasonable.
land-agent n. a steward or manager of landed property; also, an agent for the sale of land, an estate agent.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > steward or bailiff in charge of another's property
town-reeveeOE
reeveeOE
gravec1175
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dispender1340
provost1340
bailiec1375
officerc1375
dispenserc1380
proctora1382
dispensator1382
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procurer1477
factor1520
bailiff1528
land-steward1535
improver1536
grieve1537
amtman1582
administrator1596
stead-man1609
dapifer1636
vogt1694
house jobber1709
commissioner1760
foreman1774
house agent1793
ground-officer1815
land-agent1846
wic-reeve1853
steadward1876
house farmer1882
house-knacker1884
land-sergeant1894
1846 R. Cobden Speeches (1870) I. 354 We know right well that their [landlords'] land agents are their electioneering agents.
land-arch n. an arch or bridge which spans dry land.
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1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 274 The bridge consists of ten arches, one of which is a land-arch.
land-ark n. U.S. a covered wagon.
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a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent ix. 98 The great blue landarks, each roofed with its hood of white canvas stretched on hoops.
land army n. (a) (see Compounds 2a); (b) a corps of women established in 1917 for work on the land in wartime (in full Women's Land Army); also attributive.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > [noun] > British army > Women's Land Army
Women's Land Army1917
W.L.A.1939
1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 217 Admiral and General in the Fleet of the Sea, and Land Army.
1917 Times 4 Aug. 5/4 The work of appealing for the Women's Land Army will be carried on by the Board of Agriculture.
1918 Times 6 Feb. 3/5 The conditions under which the land army women are recruited have recently been changed.
1940 Punch 19 June 660/1 As soon as you join the Land Army you will find..that you are in the thick of a whole lot of live stock.
1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger xxv. 275 I could always sack you, George,..and get some of these land army girls.
1974 Country Life 26 Sept. 829/1 One looks..at a model wearing Land Army uniform, or stoops..to peer into an Anderson shelter.
land-base adj. = land-based adj.
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the world > the earth > land > [adjective] > based on land
land-based1933
land-base1962
1962 Listener 29 Mar. 540/1 Land-base missiles and sea-going missiles.
land-based adj. operating from a base on land, as opposed to one on a ship or water.
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the world > the earth > land > [adjective] > occurring on
terrestrian1608
terrestrial1638
terrestrious1646
terrene1661
shore-going1833
onshore1896
land-based1933
the world > the earth > land > [adjective] > based on land
land-based1933
land-base1962
the world > space > place > position or situation > [adjective] > based in a place
home1797
shore-based1927
land-based1933
based-
1933 Bulletin (Glasgow) 21 Sept. 18/4 The flying boats..have the assistance of land-based aircraft.
1941 Air News May 9 The intrinsic disparity between carrier- and land-based planes.
1960 Times 11 Feb. 11/6 Though land-based missiles can be ‘hardened’..they are still vulnerable to a fairly accurate nuclear attack.
1973 Sci. Amer. May 42/3 2,500 [nuclear warheads] in land-based missiles.
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1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) xvii. 135 The lande batte or pole of Penbrokshire is in Kemes xij foote..Penbrokshire xj foote.
land-berg n. (after iceberg) an ‘ice-mountain’ on land.Apparently an isolated use.
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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlv. 420 When first the mass separates from the land-berg or glacier, it is accompanied by a large quantity of disengaged fragments.
land-blink n. an atmospheric glow seen from a distance over snow-covered land in the arctic regions.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > light from the sky > reflected from ice or lying snow
blink1778
ice blink1808
land-blink1835
sky blink1837
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage iii. 41 The landblink was now very perceptible; and in the evening we discerned the land itself.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > border district(s) > border(s)
frontier1413
limitationa1475
skirt1488
limity1523
rind1530
border1535
ambit1597
verges1680
county line1776
land-board1790
1790 T. Jefferson Writings (1893–9) V. 229 If Great Britain establishes herself on our whole land-board [i.e. along the Mississippi].
1796 T. Jefferson in Pickering Vocab. U.S. (1816) 170 The position and circumstances of the United States leave them nothing to fear on their land-board.
land board n. Australian ‘an official board that manages public lands’ (Webster 1911).
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1913 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 63/1 At every meeting of the Land Board, when the Government allots land available for farmers, there are usually four to six applicants for each block.
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the world > people > nations > native people > [adjective]
inbornc1000
theodiscc1000
i-cundeOE
landisha1300
kindc1325
denizen1483
kindly born1483
native1488
naturally born1523
naturala1533
home-bred?1560
natural1574
home-born1577
homeling1577
natural-born1583
land-born1589
self-bred1590
self-born1597
indigene1598
land-breda1599
vernaculous1606
kindly1609
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terrigenist1631
native-born1645
indigenous1646
indigenary1651
indigenital1656
aboriginal1698
own-born1699
indigenal1725
homegrown1737
terrigenous1769
indigenate1775
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 171 The land-borne liues safe, the forreine at his ease.
land-borne adj. carried by land, effected over land.
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society > travel > transport > [adjective] > transported by land
land-borne1888
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Oct. 12/1 Another class of coal—best selected brights—which are landborne, fetch at the pit mouth 10s.
1934 J. L. Myres in E. Eyre European Civilization I. 156 The profoundly different qualities of sea-borne and land-borne cultures.
1957 Economist 5 Oct. 19/2 Few [Arab states] fear Russian imperialism because, unlike Turkey or Iran, they have never felt the dead-weight of landborne pressure.
land-breast n. the whole frontage formed by the abutment and wing-walls or retaining walls of a bridge.
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1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 70 Each of the Land Breasts are to spread about 25 Feet on each Side of the Bridge.
land-bred adj. brought up on land (as distinguished from on sea); also, native, indigenous.
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the world > people > nations > native people > [adjective]
inbornc1000
theodiscc1000
i-cundeOE
landisha1300
kindc1325
denizen1483
kindly born1483
native1488
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home-bred?1560
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home-born1577
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natural-born1583
land-born1589
self-bred1590
self-born1597
indigene1598
land-breda1599
vernaculous1606
kindly1609
inbred1625
terrigenist1631
native-born1645
indigenous1646
indigenary1651
indigenital1656
aboriginal1698
own-born1699
indigenal1725
homegrown1737
terrigenous1769
indigenate1775
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [adjective] > land-dweller
land-breda1599
landlubberish1829
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 31 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Whatsoever reliques there was left of the land-bred people.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 110 We resemble Land-bred nouices New brought abooad to venture on the Seas.
1887 F. M. Crawford Paul Patoff I. viii. 273 Till one day the land-bred boaster puts to sea in a Channel steamer.
land-bridge n. (a) a connection (usually prehistoric) between two land masses; (b) an overland route linking countries more directly than previously, esp. one used by containerized freight.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [noun] > over land > linking countries
land-bridge1897
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > isthmus
halse1488
necka1544
balka1552
isthmus1555
distrait1562
strait1562
strictland1577
land-passage1601
land-strait1601
isthm1609
land-neck1619
land-connection1876
thoroughfare1876
land-bridge1897
tombolo1897
1897 W. B. Scott Introd. Geol. xx. 353 Fossils of land animals may demonstrate the former existence of land bridges between regions which have long been separated by water.
1898 W. Turner in Nature 13 Jan. 259/1 A ‘Neolithic land bridge’ was produced..and a free immigration of Neolithic man with his domestic animals became possible.
1911 J. L. Myres Dawn of Hist. vii. 138 Some think..that the Hyksos conquest of Egypt may have been a further adventure along this southern land-bridge.
1941 Manch. Guardian Weekly 26 Sept. 194/4 There is now also a land bridge to Russia through Iran, and the Government is certain to consider whether and when we can give any military aid to Russia by that route.
1950 A. L. Rowse Eng. of Elizabeth ii. 39 He cites the opinion of Master Twyne that a land-bridge once existed between Dover and Calais.
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 28/1 The Port of Vancouver..put into operation the concept of the ‘Land-Bridge’.
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 32/2 The land bridge concept which foresees Canada being used as a rail-link for containers moving between Europe and the Orient.
1970 Times 2 June (Container Suppl.) p. ii/2 What is this concept, land-bridge? The term refers to the part of a movement from one place to another..consisting of an overland haul between ports.
1973 A. Quinton Nature of Things x. 301 It is generally believed that Britain was connected to the continent of Europe by a land-bridge at some time in the fairly remote past.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > coaster
land-carracka1616
coasting-vessela1657
coaster1687
drover1756
drogher1784
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. ii. 50 Faith he to night, hath boorded a land Carrick . View more context for this quotation
1629 W. Davenant Trag. Albovine iii. i Grim. I must be furnish'd too. Cuny. With a Mistresse? Grim. Yes, inquire me out some old Land-Carack.
land-cast n. an orientation.
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the world > space > direction > [noun] > finding direction > taking bearings
land-cast1881
1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) l He turned upon his track..and making a correct landcast this time, found his way to the fountains of the Taw.
land-chain n. a surveyor's chain (Simmonds).
land-claim n. a claim to the ownership of land.
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1812 J. McDonogh Papers (1898) 12 They therefore, sir, look forward to you, knowing..your knowledge of their land claims, to have those claims before Congress.
1857 D. E. E. Braman Information about Texas xiii. 151 The land claims issued by Texas.
1949 Minnesota Hist. Mar. 30 The Sioux disputed the German colonists' right to establish land claims on the site.
land-club n. a club formed to protect and advance the interests of agricultural communities.
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1908 Fabian News 19 42/2 He elaborates his scheme of land-clubs, and has himself actively taken a part in a land-club campaign.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 4/2 These groups, called ‘Land Clubs’, have now federated into a league.
land-clubber n.
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1908 Fabian News 19 44/1 [A book] Useful to land-clubbers and the like.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun]
coal1253
sea-coal1253
pit-coal1483
cannel1541
earth coala1552
horse coal1552
Newcastle coal1552
stone-coal1585
cannel coal1587
parrot1594
burn-coal1597
lithanthrax1612
stony coal1617
Welsh coala1618
land-coala1661
foot coal1665
peacock coal1686
rough coal1686
white coal1686
heathen-coalc1697
coal-stone1708
round1708
stone-coal1708
bench-coal1712
slipper coal1712
black coal1713
culm1742
rock coal1750
board coal1761
Bovey coal1761
house coal1784
mineral coal1785
splint1789
splint coal1789
jet coal1794
anthracite1797
wood-coal1799
blind-coal1802
black diamond1803
silk-coal1803
glance-coal1805
lignite1808
Welsh stone-coal1808
soft1811
spout coals1821
spouter1821
Wallsend1821
brown coal1833
paper coal1833
steam-coal1850
peat-coal1851
cherry-coal1853
household1854
sinter coal1854
oil coal1856
raker1857
Kilkenny coal1861
Pottery coal1867
silkstone1867
block coal1871
admiralty1877
rattlejack1877
bunker1883
fusain1883
smitham1883
bunker coal1885
triping1886
trolley coal1890
kibble1891
sea-borne1892
jet1893
steam1897
sack coal1898
Welsh1898
navigation coal1900
Coalite1906
clarain1919
durain1919
vitrain1919
single1921
kolm1930
hards1956
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Shrop. 1 One may observe a threefold difference in our English-Coale. 1 Sea-coale..2 Land-coale, at Mendip, Bedworth, &c. and carted into other Counties. 3 What one may call River or Fresh-water-Coale.
land-community n. joint or common ownership of land.
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the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > ownership of land > collective
commonage1707
land-community1874
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. v. 85 The historical township is the body of alodial owners who have advanced beyond the stage of land-community.
land-company n. a commercial company formed for the exploitation of land.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > companies involved in specific business
misbeliefa1450
safeguarda1450
squatc1450
smearc1476
bleach1486
poulterer1534
water company1710
land-company1805
publishing house1819
railway company1824
oil company1827
bus line1843
rails1848
accountancy1860
art house1882
poulter1884
automaker1899
energy company1910
record label1926
label1930
utility1930
re-roller1931
prefabricator1933
seven sisters1962
energy firm1970
chipmaker1971
fragmentizer1972
fixit1984
infomediary1989
multi-utility1994
1805 Deb. Congr. U.S. 30 Jan. (1852) 1044 Having never thought of purchasing any land from the Georgia land companies.
1833 Knickerbocker 1 283 ‘Look,’ said an old man..to the agent of the land company.
1854 J. R. Lowell Jrnl. Italy in Wks. (1890) I. 172 Nothing else but an American land-company ever managed to induce settlers upon territory of such uninhabitable quality.
land-connection n. = land-bridge n. (a).
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > isthmus
halse1488
necka1544
balka1552
isthmus1555
distrait1562
strait1562
strictland1577
land-passage1601
land-strait1601
isthm1609
land-neck1619
land-connection1876
thoroughfare1876
land-bridge1897
tombolo1897
1876 A. R. Wallace Geogr. Distrib. Animals I. iii. xiii. 402 There is no evidence of a former land-connection between the Australian and Neotropical regions.
1924 J. G. A. Skerl tr. A. Wegener Orig. Continents & Oceans ii. 19 The former existence of broad land connections between continents which are widely separated at the present day can scarcely be doubted.
1957 J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era II. xxxii. 696 Glaciation seems irreconcilable with a land-connexion, so often suggested, between Australia and South America during Tertiary time.
land-cook n. U.S. one who ‘cooks’ land for the market.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > other types of defrauder or swindler
leger1591
concealer1597
break-bulk1622
bug hunter1725
land-shark1769
Morocco man1796
land-cook1807
nob-pitcher1819
bubble-man1862
scuttler1869
lumberer1897
prop man1966
1807 Edinb. Rev. 10 112 How comes it to pass that the American land~cook is cunning enough to carry on his trick.
land cress n. a biennial herb of the family Cruciferæ, Barbarea verna; also, occasionally used for B. vulgaris.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > winter-cress or land-cress
winter cress1548
wound-rocket1548
herb St. Barbara1578
yellow rocket1670
land cress1856
1856 W. A. Bromfield Flora Vectensis 33 Mr R. Loe of Newchurch tells me it [sc. Barbarea verna] is often substituted by the people of this island [sc. the Isle of Wight] for the common Water Cress, being known by the opposite cognomen of Land Cress.
1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 129 Cress, Land. (1) Barbarea præcox, Br... (2) Cardamine hirsuta, L.
1944 W. J. Stokoe Caterpillars Brit. Butterflies 179 Wintercress Barbarea vulgaris..is also known as Yellow Rocket and Land Cress, to distinguish it from Watercress, which, in general appearance, it closely resembles.
1946 Nature 21 Dec. 920/1 Investigations under the Dairy Research Institute have included landcress taint in cream and butter.
1969 S. G. Harrison et al. Oxf. Bk. Food Plants 152/2 Winter Cress or Land Cress (Barbarea verna), is a useful but rarely-grown salad plant.
land district n. U.S. one of the districts into which a state or territory is divided for matters connected with land.
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1812 Deb. Congr. U.S. 9 Dec. (1853) 28 The Board of Commissioners for the western land district, in the State of Louisiana.
1820 J. A. Quitman Let. in Life & Corr. 51 It has been divided into two land-districts, of one of which Mr. Brush is register.
1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants 257 The State is divided into land districts, which are designated by Congress.
1849 E. Chamberlain Indiana Gazetteer 24 In every land district is a land office where all the public lands belonging to that district are sold.
1883 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 187 An Act to create three additional land districts in the territory of Dakota.
land-drain n. (see quot. 1967); also as v.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage
gutteringc1420
strand1565
sewaging1610
thorough-draining1669
cuniculus1670
French drain1738
riggot?1746
bush-draining1748
surface drain1765
land-drain1767
pipe-draining1776
surface draining1777
fox1784
surface drainage1796
mole drain1804
soughing1808
acequia1811
well-draining1818
tile-draining1830
wedge-draining?1830
plug-draining1833
land-drainage1841
land-draining1841
mole-draining1842
trough gutter1856
mole-ditching1860
mole drainage1860
tile-drainagea1865
well point1867
karez1875
storm sewer1887
moling1943
tiling1943
storm drain1960
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > ditch [verb (transitive)] > drain otherwise
sewer1565
run1665
land-drain1767
pipe-drain1796
sough1797
mole-drain1844
tile-drain1844
well point1867
1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 245 When the ditching is done, the next work is to land-drain the whole fields in such a manner that every part of them may be laid dry.
1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 251 In some fields..it is very difficult to tell exactly where to make the land-drains.
1841 J. F. Burke On Land-drainage 4 Remains have been found of some very ancient land-drains.
1932 E. Blunden Fall in, Ghosts 9 The trickling land-drain under the culvert did not report the imminence of an enemy.
1967 Gloss. Sanitation Terms (B.S.I.) 6 Land drain, a drain, composed of porous or perforated pipes, laid in a trench filled with gravel, broken stone, or the like, for sub-soil drainage.
land-drainage n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage
gutteringc1420
strand1565
sewaging1610
thorough-draining1669
cuniculus1670
French drain1738
riggot?1746
bush-draining1748
surface drain1765
land-drain1767
pipe-draining1776
surface draining1777
fox1784
surface drainage1796
mole drain1804
soughing1808
acequia1811
well-draining1818
tile-draining1830
wedge-draining?1830
plug-draining1833
land-drainage1841
land-draining1841
mole-draining1842
trough gutter1856
mole-ditching1860
mole drainage1860
tile-drainagea1865
well point1867
karez1875
storm sewer1887
moling1943
tiling1943
storm drain1960
1841 J. F. Burke (title) On land-drainage, subsoil-ploughing and irrigation.
1950 Engineering CLXIX. 143/3 The book should be of great value also to designers of..land-drainage, irrigation and water-supply works.
land-draining n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage
gutteringc1420
strand1565
sewaging1610
thorough-draining1669
cuniculus1670
French drain1738
riggot?1746
bush-draining1748
surface drain1765
land-drain1767
pipe-draining1776
surface draining1777
fox1784
surface drainage1796
mole drain1804
soughing1808
acequia1811
well-draining1818
tile-draining1830
wedge-draining?1830
plug-draining1833
land-drainage1841
land-draining1841
mole-draining1842
trough gutter1856
mole-ditching1860
mole drainage1860
tile-drainagea1865
well point1867
karez1875
storm sewer1887
moling1943
tiling1943
storm drain1960
1841 J. F. Burke On Land-drainage 35 Land-draining..should never be undertaken but with a determination to do it effectually.
land-dummier n. Australian (see dummy v. 1).
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1880 Gentleman's Mag. 246 77 The successes and failures of Australian land-dummiers.
land-dummying n.
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1880 Gentleman's Mag. 246 76 The fraudulent transaction known as land-dummying.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > epidemic disease
land-evil?c1225
epidemy1472
land-illc1500
epidemic1666
epidemical1676
exidemic1847
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > fit or stroke > epilepsy
brothfallc1175
foul evila1398
the falling evila1400
falling gouta1400
land-evilc1440
falling sickness1485
epilency1495
falling-ill1561
comitial fit1562
St John's disease1574
epilepsy1578
falling disease1580
St John's evil1605
epilepse1804
sacred malady-
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 266 Þet lont uuel [?a1289 Scribe D lond uuel] þet alle londes leiȝen on & liggeð ȝet monie.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 312/1 Lond ivyl, sekenesse (P. londe euyll), epilencia.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action, fact, or opportunity of anchoring > grip of anchor in ground
anchor-hold1504
landfanga1584
fast1638
a1584 S. Borough in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 327 Where a ship may ride..in 4. fadome..of water, and haue Landfange for a North and by West winde.
land-fast n. and adj. (a) n. an attachment on the land for a vessel; (b) adj. firmly attached to the shore.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > object to which ship is moored > on land or on a ship
land-fast1703
bollard1844
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adjective] > attached to
land-fast1926
1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland i. 36 There is not clean Ground enough for above 3 Ships;..One even of these must lie close to the Shore, with a Land-fast there.
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 Jan. 6/4 Amundsen's experience in the Arctic has been on shipboard, on land, and on landfast polar ice.
1973 National Geographic Mar. 350 Anchoring block and tackle to land-fast ice, all strain together to haul the bowhead out of the water.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea
fleetc893
creekc1300
graina1400
updraught14..
armleta1552
land-featherc1582
indraught1596
inlet1596
vent1604
cut1630
re-entrant1893
c1582 Digges in Archaeologia 11 236 The south baye or landfether of the great sluce.
land fever n. North American eager desire for, or excitement about, securing land (cf. gold fever n. at gold n.1 and adj. Compounds 1e).
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > desire for specific things > [noun] > for land
yird-hunger1729
earth hunger1822
land fever1839
land-hunger1862
1839 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 23 Apr. 2/2 Then came the land fever, which swept over the country like a pestilence.
1840 Knickerbocker Mag. 16 205 (heading) Recollections of the Land-Fever.
1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 4 In the days of the land-fever.
1900 E. B. Osborn Greater Canada 60 Many years passed before the North-West recovered from the commercial lethargy which followed this attack of land-fever.
1946 E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House 16 Then, suddenly the land fever seized them.
1972 J. M. Minifie Homesteader vi. 40 Many of the harvesters were bitten by the land fever, and filed on land for themselves once the harvest was over.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical fish
verme1572
scolopendra1590
land-fish1609
scolopender1658
wyver-fish1857
1419 Liber Albus (Rolls) 221 I. 376 Qui ducit landfisshe post prandium, bene licet ei hospitari piscem suum, et in crastino ponere piscem suum in foro Domini Regis.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 255 Hees growne a very land-fish languagelesse, a monster. View more context for this quotation
land-floe n. a sheet of sea-ice extending from the land.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > floe > extending from land
land-floe1823
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 101 The drift of the ice towards the south-west,..for three weeks preceding our entrance amid the land floes, had averaged seven or eight miles a-day.
1866 C. E. Smith Diary 20 July in Listener (1969) 17 Apr. 525/2 We are unable to stir, with a tremendous land-floe on one side of us and, on the other side, a body of ice extending as far as we can see from the mast-head.
1939 Beaver June 31 By May literally hundreds of thousands [of eider ducks] have arrived to feed in the sea and rest idly on the edge of land-floe and ice-pan.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute
meretrixOE
whoreOE
soiled dovea1250
common womanc1330
putec1384
bordel womanc1405
putaina1425
brothelc1450
harlot?a1475
public womanc1510
naughty pack?1529
draba1533
cat1535
strange woman1535
stew1552
causey-paikera1555
putanie?1566
drivelling1570
twigger1573
punka1575
hackney1579
customer1583
commodity1591
streetwalker1591
traffic1591
trug1591
hackster1592
polecat1593
stale1593
mermaid1595
medlar1597
occupant1598
Paphian1598
Winchester goose1598
pagan1600
hell-moth1602
aunt1604
moll1604
prostitution1605
community1606
miss1606
night-worm1606
bat1607
croshabell1607
prostitute1607
pug1607
venturer1607
nag1608
curtal1611
jumbler1611
land-frigate1611
walk-street1611
doll-common1612
turn-up1612
barber's chaira1616
commonera1616
public commonera1616
trader1615
venturea1616
stewpot1616
tweak1617
carry-knave1623
prostibule1623
fling-dusta1625
mar-taila1625
night-shadea1625
waistcoateera1625
night trader1630
coolera1632
meretrician1631
painted ladya1637
treadle1638
buttock1641
night-walker1648
mob?1650
lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651
lady of pleasure1652
trugmullion1654
fallen woman1659
girlc1662
high-flyer1663
fireship1665
quaedama1670
small girl1671
visor-mask1672
vizard-mask1672
bulker1673
marmalade-madam1674
town miss1675
town woman1675
lady of the night1677
mawks1677
fling-stink1679
Whetstone whore1684
man-leech1687
nocturnal1693
hack1699
strum1699
fille de joie1705
market-dame1706
screw1725
girl of (the) town1733
Cytherean1751
street girl1764
monnisher1765
lady of easy virtue1766
woman (also lady) of the town1766
kennel-nymph1771
chicken1782
stargazer1785
loose fish1809
receiver general1811
Cyprian1819
mollya1822
dolly-mop1834
hooker1845
charver1846
tail1846
horse-breaker1861
professional1862
flagger1865
cocodette1867
cocotte1867
queen's woman1871
common prostitute1875
joro1884
geisha1887
horizontal1888
flossy1893
moth1896
girl of the pavement1900
pross1902
prossie1902
pusher1902
split-arse mechanic1903
broad1914
shawl1922
bum1923
quiff1923
hustler1924
lady of the evening1924
prostie1926
working girl1928
prostisciutto1930
maggie1932
brass1934
brass nail1934
mud kicker1934
scupper1935
model1936
poule de luxe1937
pro1937
chromo1941
Tom1941
pan-pan1949
twopenny upright1958
scrubber1959
slack1959
yum-yum girl1960
Suzie Wong1962
mattress1964
jamette1965
ho1966
sex worker1971
pavement princess1976
parlour girl1979
crack whore1990
1611 B. Jonson Explic. Emblemes Frontispice in T. Coryate Crudities sig. av Here to his Land-Friggat hee's ferried by Charon, He bords her; a seruice a hot and a rare one.
land-fyrd n. Old English and Historical the land force.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > [noun] > an army
ferd823
herec855
drightOE
drightfolkOE
ferdingc1000
gingOE
land-fyrd11..
hostc1290
powerc1300
preyc1300
chivalry1382
puissance1423
enarmec1430
exercite1485
force1487
armya1522
land-force1614
wall1657
ground force1929
11.. Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1001 (Laud) Ne him to ne dorste scip here on sæ, ne land~fyrd.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §4. 75 The Land-Fyrd, or general levy of fighting men.
land-gift n. = Bhoodan n.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [noun] > transference without consideration > for distribution to poor
land-gift1953
1953 Times 15 Apr. 7/3 The bhoodan (land-gift) movement..is attempting to help the thirty million to forty million landless cultivators of India.
1957 Listener 30 May 889/3 The Land Gifts Movement..aims at persuading landowners large and small to surrender voluntarily a sixth of their land for distribution to the poor.
1964 T. Zinkin India vi. 125 Vinoba Bhave..managed to create such a response for his ‘Bhoodan’— land-gift—that the bitterness on which the communists had thrived in Telengana vanished.
land girl n. a member of the Women's Land Army (see land army n. (b)).
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > land girl
land girl1918
1918 Times 20 Mar. 9/4 The land girls [had] little felt hats and smocks and their red badges of service.
1919 ‘I. Hay’ Last Million (new ed.) 81 We have consorted with..Farmers, Hedgers, and Land Girls.
1923 Daily Mail 2 Apr. 7 A few more land-girls have put on their breeches and gaiters, smocks and slouch hats, and gone back to their old war-time tasks.
1928 ‘R. Crompton’ William—the Good iv. 103 He found his sister Ethel wearing a neat land girl's costume and weeding a bed.
1940 Manch. Guardian Weekly 8 Nov. 325 One German pilot even turned his guns against land girls working in the fields.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 July 399/5 A young Tunisian land~girl and youth leader.
1974 M. Cecil Heroines in Love vii. 175 Down on the farm the Land Girl was swept off her feet by the farmer.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > a landed property or estate
homeOE
landsc1000
estrec1275
manorc1300
stead1338
room?a1513
soil1575
demesne1584
proprietary1608
land-gooda1626
country estate1692
property1719
quinta1754
estate1772
hacienda1772
concern1787
finca1909
a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 246 Purchasing..howses and landgoods upon which they did inhabite.
land grant n. a grant of land; spec. attributive in land-grant-college n.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [noun] > specific granting of land > a grant of land
land grant1862
1862 N.Y. Tribune 21 Mar. Some years since, the movement for a Pacific Railroad, attended by an enormous land-grant, assumed proportions that indicated the probable success of the movement.
1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 431 Expended..Land grant expenses—$7,205.
1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 311 Unusual land-grants were made to railroad companies.
1873 J. H. Beadle Undevel. West xi. 191 The election had weakened the Republican party, and land grants were thought to be among the chief causes.
1900 Daily Chron. 28 Aug. 5/1 At the present time no land-grants to emigrants are being made by the Natal Government.
1944 F. Clune Red Heart 5 He was..a hander-out of liberal land-grants to sycophantic favourites.
1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. iv. 158 If arable is at the centre of the land-grant, connected rights in meadow, pasture..and wood were closely associated with it.
land-grant-college n. U.S. a college set up originally under the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, which donated public lands to certain States for the establishment of colleges of agriculture, etc.
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1889 Cent. Mag. Jan. 404/2 The land-grant colleges graduate men fitted to superintend farms and workshops.
1943 J. S. Huxley TVA vi. 30 In 1862..Land Grant Colleges were established—so called because in every State lands were granted from the public domain to endow a College for the teaching of ‘Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts’.
1967 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 14 Mar. (1970) 498 Federal participation in education is not exactly new, going back as far as 1785 in the Land Ordinance, the land grant colleges of the 1860's [etc.].
land-honour n. (see honour n. 6).
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > seignory > type of
honourc1330
lordship marcher1535
land-honour1671
1671 Madox (title) Baronia Anglica, a History of Land-Honours and Baronies, and of Feudal Tenure in capite.
land-horse n. the horse on the landside of a plough.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > that pulls plough
plough-jade1573
plough1576
land-horse1842
1842 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 325/2 The..most forward horse, should be put in the furrow, and only bound back to the right or off theet of the land-horse.
land-hunger n. keen desire for the acquisition of land.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > desire for specific things > [noun] > for land
yird-hunger1729
earth hunger1822
land fever1839
land-hunger1862
1862 J. M. Ludlow Hist. U.S. vi. 221 The land-hunger of the South now outstripped even the ambition of conquest of Mr. Polk.
land-hungry adj.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > desire for specific things > [adjective] > desirous of land
land-hungry1889
1889 Cent. Mag. Jan. 369/2 When the land-hungry band of Welsh and Norman barons entered Ireland.
land-hunter n. U.S. one who searches for land to settle on or purchase.
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1816 U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. 10 367 This John Hall was a Land Speculator and a Land Hunter and Informed him of the Vacancy.
1834 Visit to Texas xxiii. 214 These persons, commonly called land-hunters, were almost all from the United States, and generally from the South Western States.
1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 2 To mislead an unpractised land-hunter was a matter of no great difficulty.
land-ice n. ice attached to the shore, as distinguished from floe.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > land ice > [noun] > attached to shore
land-ice1820
ice shelf1869
1820 Scoresby in Ann. Reg. ii. 1324 Land-ice consists of drift-ice attached to the shore; or drift-ice, which, by being covered with mud or gravel, appears to have recently been in contact with the shore; or the flat-ice, resting on the land, not having the appearance or elevation of ice-bergs.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxiii. 281 Crossing the land-ices by portage.
1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age xxxiii. 504 This great sheet of land-ice levelled up the valleys of Britain.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > epidemic disease
land-evil?c1225
epidemy1472
land-illc1500
epidemic1666
epidemical1676
exidemic1847
c1500 Addic. Scot. Cron. (1819) 4 The land Ill..was so violent þt þar deit ma þt yere than euir þar deit ouder in pestilens [etc.].
land-jobber n. one who makes a business of buying and selling land on speculation.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in land and property
housemonger1604
land-jobber1745
estate agent1880
realtor1916
1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 74 Let him be at Home to none but.. a Land-Jobber, or his Inventor of new Funds.
1777 J. Adams Wks. (1850) II. 436 Landjobbers, speculators in land.
1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 261 The governors were many of them land-jobbers.
1808 T. Ashe Trav. Amer. x. 90 A few sordid monopolizers called land jobbers.
1833 J. B. Wyeth Oregon 35 The New England land-jobbers were in their bargains too hard for the torpid Dutchman.
1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. xv. 419 A physician, land-jobber, and subservient political intriguer.
land-jobbing n.
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society > trade and finance > [noun] > trading venture or speculation > an act of > specific types
portage1500
portledge1636
land-jobbing1781
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > speculation > type of
mine adventure1698
land-jobbing1781
entrepreneurship1902
1781 R. H. Lee in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1814) 2nd Ser. I. 186 Toryism, British interest, and Land~jobbing views, combine numbers without and within doors.
1816 U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. 10 346 This Henry is a full Bred Land Jobber..; his Land Jobbing extends from the Mouth of the Mississippi to Uwchland Township Chester County Pennsylvania.
1825 Dougherty Light to People Kentucky 1 It was the case of..the first settlers of Kentucky..against..the famous John Kercheval, of land jobbing memory.
1885 Cent. Mag. Apr. 826 When the bill to establish a State park at Niagara was on its passage,..the great majority of the country members were opposed to it, fearing that it might conceal some land-jobbing scheme.
land-jumping n. ‘jumping’ another person's land.
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1910 J. Hart Vigilante Girl iv. 46 His opinion was asked by a street tribunal over a ‘land-jumping’.
land-lead n. a navigable opening in the ice along the shore.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > through ice
waterlead1853
land-lead1856
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxviii. 278 Here the land-leads ceased, with the exception of some small and scarcely practicable openings near the shore.
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a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V xcii, in Poems (1878) IV. 124 What horror stops my Quill? ere yet aboard Wee see the Royall Fraught, a Land-Leake Springs.
land legs n. [compare sea legs n.] used to designate the ability to walk comfortably on land after being at sea, in a train, etc.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > power of > on or after being on a ship
to have one's sea legs on1712
land legs1871
1871 City-Road Mag. I. 242/1 If Mr. Goschen has had to get his sea-legs on, Jack finds it as difficult to put on his land-legs.
1908 Daily Chron. 10 June 4/4 I had so thoroughly got my sea-legs in the constant tossing about that I had lost my land legs.
1927 Sunday Times 6 Mar. 23/4 The tourists will disembark..and proceed to Teignmouth to spend eighteen days recovering their ‘land legs’ and developing combination.
1938 H. Nicolson Let. 17 Apr. (1966) 337 Have you..recovered your landlegs as yet? After three days in the train one feels the room rocking like after three days at sea.
land-looker n. U.S. (see quot.); also (obsolete), a person claiming to have appraised the land in a given area.
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1836 D. Webster Priv. Corr. (1857) II. 21 I hope you will leave some faithful ‘land-lookers’ to explore for you in your absence.
1840 Knickerbocker 16 206 Another class of operators..became popularly known as ‘land-lookers’. These met you at every turn, ready to furnish ‘water power’, ‘pine-lots’, ‘choice farming tracts’ or any thing else, at a moment's notice.
1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 6 These blunders called into action another class of operators, who became popularly known as ‘land-lookers’.
1891 R. A. Alger in Voice (N.Y.) 15 Oct. What woodsmen call a ‘land-looker’, i.e. a timber expert whose business it is to locate pine timber land in Michigan.
1893 Scribner's Mag. June 695/1 My first day's experience as a ‘Cruiser’ or ‘Landlooker’.
1900 E. Brucken N. Amer. Forests 81 A peculiar class of people variously known as woodsmen, cruisers, landlookers, whose business it is to give information as to the existence of pine timber, its location, amount, value.
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xvi. 116 This is the usual method of procedure adopted by land-lookers everywhere.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)] > steal from > steal land from
land-lurch1596
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvi. 219 Hence countrie Loutes land-lurch their Lords.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > other rents
tunc1311
Martin rentc1325
land-male1390
fee-farm1399
chief-rent1523
chief1601
guild-rent1670
quit-rent1796
tack-duty1809
fore-rent1813
sub-rent1820
retainer1970
1390–1 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 392 Pro landmale, 9d.
1416–17 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 614 Pro ligatura cujusdam libri vocati le landmalebok, 16d.
1429 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 60 In layndmayle solut. sacriste Dunelm., 9½d.
1577 in D. Balfour Oppress. 16th Cent. Orkney & Zetland (1859) 18 Ane dewitie thai pay to the Kingis Maiestie for thair scat and landmales zeirlie.
1665 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 218 15 August, Paid for Land Male, 1s. 9d.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > border district(s)
end-landc1175
marcha1325
bounds1340
coast1377
marcherc1475
border1489
marchland1536
confines1548
front1589
limitrophe1589
commark1612
land-march1614
frontier1676
Border-sidea1700
borderland1813
border-countryc1885
rimland1942
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 212 Many of the Imperial Marquisats..had their names from being Land-marches of the State, and not from their maritime situation.
land-marker n. ‘a machine for laying out rows for planting’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
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1670 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 3) Land-mate, in Herefordshire he that in Harvest-time reaps on the same ridge of ground, or Land, with another, they call Land-mates, that is fellow Laborers on the same land.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > meadow land
leasowc950
leasea1000
meadOE
meadowOE
meadowlandOE
mead ground1453
meadow ground1523
meading1560
meadowing1560
land-mead1577
1577–87 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) III. i. xviii. 132 Our medowes, are either bottomes..or else such as we call land meads, and borrowed from the best and fattest pasturages.
land-mistress n. = landlady n. 1.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > landlord > woman
landlady?1533
land-mistress1860
mivvy1881
bunk-wife1937
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxxiv. 102 If our Welsh land~mistress said, ‘Here are Martin and John making me fair offers for the farm’ [etc.].
landnám n. [Old Norse land-nám < land land, territory + nám, < nema to take] = land-take n.
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1858 G. W. Dasent in Oxf. Ess. 185 Chief after chief coming out [to Iceland]..settling himself on some great chief's lot or landnám, who allotted him a portion on condition of the acknowledgement of his supremacy.
1877 C. A. V. Conybeare Place of Iceland in Hist. European Inst. 28 The Goðorð was no doubt intimately connected with the landnám of the most powerful of the immigrants.
1915 K. Gjerset Hist. Norwegian People (1932) xxv. 140 The chieftains..claimed large tracts of land by right of settlement and occupation..while the freemen..with their consent, settled in their landnám.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > isthmus
halse1488
necka1544
balka1552
isthmus1555
distrait1562
strait1562
strictland1577
land-passage1601
land-strait1601
isthm1609
land-neck1619
land-connection1876
thoroughfare1876
land-bridge1897
tombolo1897
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. xvi. 210 At the very entrance of the Isthmus, or land-necke.
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a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 94 Of all Oaths, they [sc. the Irish] think themselves at much liberty to take a Land-Oath, as they call it: Which is an Oath to prove a forg'd Deed, a Possession, Livery or Seisin, payment of Rents, &c. in order to recover for their Countrey-men the Lands which they had forfeited.
land-office n. originally U.S. (see quot. 1855).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > other sales offices
land-office1681
society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept > specific
rolls1527
paper-office1637
pell officea1650
will office1672
land-office1681
1681 in Arch. Maryland (1889) VII. 242 An Act relating to the Land Office.
1755 H. Sharpe Corr. (1888) I. 193 Issuing a Commission to Mr. Calvert and Doctor Steuart as Joint Iudges of the Land Office.
1790 A. Hamilton in H. C. Syrett Papers (1962) VI. 503 It seems requisite, that the general Land-office should be established at the seat of Government.
1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Land-office, in most colonies there are land-offices, in which the sales of new land are registered, and warrants issued for the location of land, and other business respecting unsettled land is transacted.
land-office business n. a thriving business, like that done in a land-office in boom times; a ‘roaring trade’.
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society > trade and finance > [noun] > thriving trade
land-office business1839
1839 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 2 Apr. 2/3 A practical printer..could do a land-office business here.
1877 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Nov. 590/1 Naturally, the prophets of Baal took all the trade. Isaac..went a-prophesying around, letting on to be doing a land-office business, but 't wa'n't any use.
1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) 153 It is owned by the Union Mill and Mining Company, which once did a land-office business in ore crushing.
1935 M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer v. 51 He was doing a land-office business in gas and pop and candy.
1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) xi. 203 American students..used to do a land-office business in contraband cigarettes.
1972 New York 12 June 35/2 Allen & Co...was doing a land-office business touting Planet Oil.
land-packet n. U.S. (see quot.).
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1847 W. T. Porter Quarter Race Kentucky 115 Known as the Captain of a ‘land-packet’—in plain terms, the driver of an ox-team.
land-passage n. †(a) an isthmus; (b) passage by land.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > journey across or through > across land
land-passage1601
overland1840
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > isthmus
halse1488
necka1544
balka1552
isthmus1555
distrait1562
strait1562
strictland1577
land-passage1601
land-strait1601
isthm1609
land-neck1619
land-connection1876
thoroughfare1876
land-bridge1897
tombolo1897
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 78 Another land passage or Isthmus there is of like streightness..and of equall breadth with that of Corinth.
1642 Declar. Chas. I to Parl. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 602 He hath..cut the Banks, and let in the Waters to drown the Land-passages, and to make the Town inaccessable by that way.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 190 There is no Land-passage from this Elder World unto that of America.
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1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent ii. viii. 273 A Custom..is set up at present in most Manors of..the..Weald under the Name of Landpeerage; whereby the Owners of the Lands, on each side the Highways, claim to exclude the Lord from the Property of the Soil of the Way, and of the Trees growing thereon.
land-pirate n. one who robs on land, a highwayman; †also, a literary pirate.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > [noun] > highwayman
routerc1300
malandryna1438
stradarolle1562
highpad1567
highway robber1577
way-beatera1586
lance-man1589
high lawyer1591
St. Nicholas' clerk1598
outrider1599
bidstand1600
land-pirate1608
highwayman1617
pad1652
knight of the road1665
rum-padder1665
paddist1671
rum pad1688
pad-thief1690
gentleman (also squire) of the pad1700
snaffler1728
gentleman1778
scamp1782
scampsman1799
bandolero1832
ladrone1832
Spring-heeled Jack1838
road agent1840
agent1876
society > communication > printing > publishing > publisher > [noun] > censor > dishonest publisher
land-pirate1608
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of
bawdy-basket1567
ballad-monger1598
land-pirate1608
map-monger1639
bookwoman1647
mercury1648
second-hand bookseller1656
Bible-seller1707
map-seller1710
stall-man1761
book auctioneer1776
scrap-monger1786
colporteur1796
death-hunter1851
train boy1852
speech-crier1856
roarer1865
looker-out1894
1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. G3v The Cabbines where these Land-pyrates lodge in the night, are the Out-barnes of Farmers.
c1670 in T. Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 388 Some dishonest booksellers, called land-pirates, who make it their practice to steal impressions of other men's copies.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Land-pirates, Highwaymen or any other Robbers.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right III. xxxiv. 105 A bloody murdering land-pirate that ought to be hung at the yard-arm.
landplane n. an aircraft which can only operate from land (opposed to seaplane n.).
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > which can only operate from land
landplane1923
1923 Daily Mail 23 June 5 Among landplanes there are huge new troop-carriers.
1932 19th Cent. Feb. 205 One squadron of flying-boats and one of torpedo-bomber landplanes.
1941 E. C. Shepherd Mil. Aeroplane 27 The Coastal Command..has..landplane reconnaissance craft which can also carry bombs.
1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 61 Land planes are not designed for alighting on the sea.
1969 K. Munson Pioneer Aircraft 1903–14 152/2 Unlike Fabre's seaplane, however, this was both a landplane and a biplane, with a twin-girder ‘fuselage’ on which was lightly attached an aluminium nacelle encompassing side-by-side seats for pilot and passenger.
land-plaster n. ‘rock-gypsum ground to a powder for use as a fertilizer’ ( Cent. Dict.).
ΚΠ
1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 31/3 (advt.) Genuine No. 1 Peruvian Guano. Dried Blood and Wood. Land Plaster. Pondrette. For sale at lowest market price, and in quantities to suit.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > rod, pole, or perch
yard900
roodOE
perchc1300
rodc1380
fall1388
goad1391
polea1500
lug1562
farthing1602
land-pole1603
gad1706
virgate1772
perk1825
esperduct1866
gad-stick1866
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) xvi. 133 The vsuall measure of land vsed in this shire much differeth from the statute acre, for yt differeth all together in summinge vp, as allso in the land pole.
land-poor adj. U.S. poor through owning much land and being unable easily to support the burden of taxation.
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1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West 781 In the country, the old settlers are ‘land-poor’—so rich that they can not pay their taxes.
1888 Harper's Mag. Apr. 702/2 He was not only land-poor, but he had no experience in the management of his plantation.
1914 Collier's 31 Jan. 22/2 The land-poor farmer is a well-known institution in the Middle West.
a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) iv. 125 All I told them was I couldn't afford any millionaire's sanatorium because I was land poor.
land-presser n. an apparatus for pressing down the soil.
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1834 Penny Cycl. II. 224/2 In such soils an artificial pan may be formed by the land-presser or press-drill.
land-province n. ‘a province of the land distinct from others in the assemblage of plants or animals which it contains, or in their distribution’ (Cassell, 1884).
land-reeve n. (see quot.).
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1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 635/2 Landreeve, a subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the land steward.
Land Registry n. a government department with which titles to or charges upon land must be registered; the building or office in which this department is housed.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > land register > government department dealing with
Land Registry1862
1862 Act 25 & 26 Victoria c. 53 s. 108 An Office, to be called the Office of Land Registry, shall be established.
1974 J. M. Brownjohn tr. H. H. Kirst Time for Truth iii. 73 The information does seem to be genuine... I took the liberty of running a preliminary check at the Land Registry.
1986 Homes & Savings Winter 46/1 The Land Registry issues a land certificate..to the owner.
land-roll n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Land-roll, a clod-crusher and seam~presser.
Land-Rover n. (also Landrover) (a proprietary name for) a sturdy, four-wheel-drive motor vehicle designed esp. for work in rough or agricultural country.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > specific four-wheel drive car
jeep1941
peep1941
Land-Rover1948
rover1961
Hummer1983
Chelsea tractor1994
1948 Trade Marks Jrnl. 29 Sept. 786/2 Land~rover... Land motor-vehicles and parts thereof... The Rover Company Limited.
1948 Motor 3 Nov. 381/1 Also exhibited is the Land Rover, as a closed estate car with seven-seat capacity, a go-anywhere, four-wheel-drive model powered by the ‘60’ engine.
1953 New Statesman 13 June 696/3 Commuting barristers and stockbrokers in their shooting brakes and land-rovers.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Apr. 243/4 It is one of the few recent books about the Sahara desert in which there is no mention of a Land-Rover.
1960 Times 5 July (Agric. Suppl.) p. iv/1 The Land-Rover is as much part of the farming scene as the cattle or the sheep.
1971 Country Life 25 Feb. 436/2 Then came the Landrover, also a multi-purpose, cross-country vehicle.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > movement of material > [noun] > movement under gravity or water
land-rushc1550
slide1664
landslip1679
pitting1686
rockfall?1797
shoot1820
landslide1822
run1827
mountain slide1830
slip1838
slough1838
mudslide1848
founder1882
creep1889
soil-creep1897
rock creep1902
slump1905
solifluction1906
slumping1907
slopewash1938
sludging1946
mass wasting1951
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 Mony hurlis of stannirs & stanis that tumlit doune vitht the land rusche.
land sale n. (a) a sale of land; (b) applied attributively to collieries which are worked on a small scale and from which coal is supplied only to the country round; plural the coal so disposed of.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > coal-mine > type of
coal-heugh1414
land sale1708
1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 19 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) Land-Sale Collieries.
1848 Simmonds's Colonial Mag. 14 63 The whole sum realised by land sales.
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Newcastle Terms) Landsale, coals sold to the country in the neighbourhood of the pit.
1886 J. Boyd Bewick Gleanings 2 His father and grandfather before him, had..held a small ‘landsale’ colliery near their home at Cherryburn.
land-score n. [representing Old English landscoru] Historical, a division of land
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the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun]
placec1325
piecec1330
soil1430
groundc1436
territory?a1439
land1604
strain1614
track1686
reaching1727
terrain1766
land-score1828
outstretch1858
1828 N. Carlisle Hist. Acct. Comm. conc. Charities 295 Anciently the greatest part of the Country lay in common, only some parcels about the villages being inclosed, and a small quantity in Land-Scores allotted out for tillage.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > church dues > payment on land
land-scot1617
1617 in G. W. Hill & W. H. Frere Mem. Stepney Parish (1891) 77 There shalbe a generall Landskot and assessemt made of all the inhabitants of the parish..toward the necessarie repayre of the Church.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Lanscot or Landscote.
land-scrip n. U.S. a negotiable certificate, issued by the U.S. government or by corporate bodies holding donations of land therefrom, entitling the holder to the possession of certain portions of public land (Webster, 1864).
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > proof of > document > with reference to public land
land-warrant1769
scrip1819
land-scrip1834
1834 A. Jackson in Messages & Papers of Presidents (1896) III. 52 Mr. St. Clair..had permitted the clerk in his office to be the agent of speculations in land scrip.
1848 Indiana Gen. Assembly Doc. (1849) I. 181 Such land Scrip as had been issued on the Wabash and Erie Canal.
1857 D. E. E. Braman Information about Texas xiii. 151 The land claims issued by Texas..are head-right certificates, military certificates, land-scrip.
1862 Congress. Globe 10 June 2628/1 There is no railroad company..that has the right to locate land scrip.
1943 L. V. Hamner Short Grass 174 Surveyors..bought up a lot of land scrip for almost nothing.
land-scurvy n. scurvy occurring on land, as amongst inmates of workhouses, armies, etc.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > vitamin deficiency > scurvy
scurviness1548
scurvy1586
scorbute1597
scorbuch1598
scorbuticism1665
scorbutica1680
sea-scurvy1748
land-scurvy1790
scorbutus1866
1790 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 11) xxxix. 397 Harrowgate-water is certainly an excellent medicine in the land scurvy.
1891 C. Creighton Hist. Epidemics Brit. 605 (note) At one time land-scurvy was detected (under the influence of theory) in many forms.
land-sealing n. hunting seals on land.
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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > seal-hunting > [noun]
sealing1786
swilingc1894
sealery1895
land-sealing1911
1911 Chambers's Jrnl. July 475/2 In the land-sealing..thousands of fur-seals are driven and forced onwards.
land-sergeant n. (see quot. 1893 ); also, the steward of an estate.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > steward or bailiff in charge of another's property
town-reeveeOE
reeveeOE
gravec1175
procuratorc1300
dispender1340
provost1340
bailiec1375
officerc1375
dispenserc1380
proctora1382
dispensator1382
farmerc1384
approverc1386
husbanda1387
stewardc1405
chamberlain1423
procurer1477
factor1520
bailiff1528
land-steward1535
improver1536
grieve1537
amtman1582
administrator1596
stead-man1609
dapifer1636
vogt1694
house jobber1709
commissioner1760
foreman1774
house agent1793
ground-officer1815
land-agent1846
wic-reeve1853
steadward1876
house farmer1882
house-knacker1884
land-sergeant1894
a1775 Hobie Noble ix, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 2/2 I dare not with you into England ride, The land-sergeant has me at feid.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Land-serjeant, one of the officers of the Border watch, under the Warden of the March.
1894 R. S. Ferguson Hist. Westmorland 197 The steward or land-sergeant of their barony or manor.
land-shark n. (a) one who makes a livelihood by preying upon seamen when ashore; (b) a land-grabber; (c) a lean breed of hog.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > other types of defrauder or swindler
leger1591
concealer1597
break-bulk1622
bug hunter1725
land-shark1769
Morocco man1796
land-cook1807
nob-pitcher1819
bubble-man1862
scuttler1869
lumberer1897
prop man1966
1769 J. Wesley Jrnl. 30 Mar. Let all beware of these land~sharks.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 219 Lieutenant Brown..told him some goose's gazette about his being taken in a skirmish with the land-sharks.
1829 in Ohio Archaeol. & Hist. Q. (1939) XLVIII. 331 The Counsel is sure to be supported by the presiding Judges..& thus the Property of Society is Confiscated Legally between these Land Sharks.
1839 J. D. Lang N.Z. in 1839 i. 14 A class of persons in that Colony [sc. New South Wales] who were known by the name of Land Sharks..have turned their eyes all at once to New Zealand.
1840 Knickerbocker Mag. 16 211 Well! you're a land-shark, then—swallowin' up poor men's farms.
1848 W. Armstrong Stocks 37 A hundred thousand dollars..which he very naturally refused to deprive her of for the sake of satisfying certain land sharks.
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 107 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI In the county of Yates, I am not aware that there is the first full-blood breeding animal of any description, unless it be the full blood land-shark hog.
1852 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 3 332 Variously known as narragansetts, alligators, land sharks and flea breeders.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. iv. 117 Can't trust these landsharks; they'll plunder even the rings off a corpse's fingers. They think every wreck a godsend.
1865 C. F. Hursthouse Lett. on N.Z. Subj. 89 ‘Land Sharks’, twenty years ago this was a term rife in Australia and New Zealand.
1873 E. Eggleston Myst. Metropolisville xi. 94 Making severe remarks on the subject of land speculators, and particularly of land-sharks.
a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Rolling Stones (1915) 218 A class of land speculators commonly called land sharks, unscrupulous and greedy.
1935 A. Sullivan Great Divide 342 The Metis are being stirred up by the land sharks to demand their scrip, then the sharks will swallow them.
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1839 Colonial Gaz. 28 Aug. 627/2 Land-sharking means pretending to purchase, but really obtaining somehow, land from the natives.
1840 1st Rep. N.Z. Company 31 The practice of land-sharking, or the acquisition of land from the barbarous natives by private persons, without any reserves for the use of the natives, or indeed any sort of regard for their just rights.
1855 C. W. Richmond Let. 28 Apr. in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 162 Such agreements favor landsharking and tend to produce strife and contention.
land-sick adj. (a) sick for the sight of land; (b) Nautical (of a ship) impeded in its movements by being close to land; (c) sick of being on the land; (d) sick as a result of being on land again after a long sea voyage.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [adjective] > sick of being on the land
land-sick1846
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected by nausea > types of nausea
dead-sick1535
seasicka1566
airsick1785
travel sick1833
land-sick1846
trainsick1896
carsick1908
space-sick1912
1846 H. Melville Typee i. (heading) A land-sick ship.
1888 L. A. Smith Music of Waters 219 I could understand any land~sick lad longing for a sea-life if he once heard this ballast-throwing song.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 13 Feb. 2/1 The joy of the land-sick sailors who cried, ‘The sea, the sea!’
1908 Daily Chron. 10 June 4/4 It was very curious, that first step ashore... I was thoroughly land-sick.
1922 D. H. Lawrence Let. 5 Sept. (1962) II. 714 We were twenty-five days at sea and are still landsick—the floor ought to go up and down, the room ought to tremble from the engines, the water ought to swish around but doesn't, so one is landsick. The solid ground almost hurts.
1924 D. H. Lawrence & M. L. Skinner Boy in Bush 19 Jack was a little tired and a little land-sick, after the long voyage.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > [noun]
speechc888
rounOE
ledenc1000
tonguec1000
wordOE
moalc1175
speaka1300
languagec1300
land-speecha1325
talea1325
lip1382
stevenc1386
languea1425
leed1513
public language1521
idiom1575
idiotism1588
lingua1660
lingua franca1697
receptive language1926
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 669 Sexti lond-speches and .xii. mo Weren delt ðane in werlde ðo.
land-speed n. (a) speed (of an aircraft) relative to the ground; (b) speed on the ground (e.g. in a motor vehicle).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > [noun] > speed on the ground
land-speed1910
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [noun] > speed
sinking speed1860
air speed1909
land-speed1910
landing speed1911
flying speed1917
1910 R. Ferris How it Flies xx. 464 Land-speed, the speed of aircraft as related to objects on the ground.
1935 G. E. T. Eyston & B. Lyndon Motor Racing vi. 56 Record breaking can be somewhat grim, as is shown by the land-speed attempts at Daytona.
1963 Times 2 May 11/2 Donald Campbell reached 110 miles an hour on the salt flats here today when his turbo-jet car Bluebird made a first trial run for his world landspeed record bid.
1971 Guinness Bk. Records (ed. 18) xi. 160 The highest land speed recorded by a woman is 335·070 m.p.h. by Mrs. Lee Ann Breedlove.
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1739 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1890) VIII. Money laid out in repairing the land stall leading to Burn and Masham Bridges.
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1688 in New Jersey Archives (1881) II. 31 There is a gushet of about 2000 acres..which I design to take vp for you, being good land; so I think by farr you will be the best land-stead of any concerned in the province.
c1701 in New Jersey Archives (1881) II. 34 He says I was in 1688, the best Land-stead of any concern'd in the Province.
land-steward n. one who manages a landed estate for the owner.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > steward or bailiff in charge of another's property
town-reeveeOE
reeveeOE
gravec1175
procuratorc1300
dispender1340
provost1340
bailiec1375
officerc1375
dispenserc1380
proctora1382
dispensator1382
farmerc1384
approverc1386
husbanda1387
stewardc1405
chamberlain1423
procurer1477
factor1520
bailiff1528
land-steward1535
improver1536
grieve1537
amtman1582
administrator1596
stead-man1609
dapifer1636
vogt1694
house jobber1709
commissioner1760
foreman1774
house agent1793
ground-officer1815
land-agent1846
wic-reeve1853
steadward1876
house farmer1882
house-knacker1884
land-sergeant1894
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 679 His land-stewart in the tyme he maid Ouir all Scotland.
1701 R. Steele Funeral v. 72 He is not now with his Land-steward.
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy xiv. 100 ‘My Lord’, answered the land steward, meekly, ‘were it a thing’ [etc.].
land-stone n. a stone turned up in digging.
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1796 Capt. Haig Diary in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) 482 Many land stones, some whin ones, but mostly all fine quarried stones.
1813 R. Kerr Agric. Surv. Berwick 35 In all free soils, numerous stones, provincially termed land-stones, are found.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Land stones, the name given..to the pebbles and boulders turned up in digging and draining.
land-stool n. ? Scottish = land-stall n.
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1873 W. McDowall Hist. Dumfries I. 584 The pier or landstool was commenced.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > isthmus
halse1488
necka1544
balka1552
isthmus1555
distrait1562
strait1562
strictland1577
land-passage1601
land-strait1601
isthm1609
land-neck1619
land-connection1876
thoroughfare1876
land-bridge1897
tombolo1897
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 4 Peruana is..enuironed on all sides with the sea, saue wheras the foresaide Land-streight doth ioine the same to Mexicana.
1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem ii. v. 158 In a Foreland or Landstreight where two Seas meet.
land-stream n. a current in the sea due to river waters.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] > sea
sea-streamOE
streamc1405
ocean current1837
ocean-river1852
land-stream1868
slope current1931
1868 A. C. Swinburne Poems & Ballads (ed. 3) 73 The land-stream and the tide-stream in the sea.
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1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties ii. f. 105v Did not land-striues bring them to destruction?
land-swarmer n. apparently a kind of rocket.
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1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (rev. ed.) App. p. xxxv Charges for Land Swarmers or Small Rockets.
land-swell n. the roll of the water near the shore.
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1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms iv. 552 As her gilded prow is dancing Through the landswell.
land-take n. [Old Norse land-taka] the action of taking land; spec. with reference to the Norse colonization of Iceland, the land taken by a chief as his province.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > [noun] > specific colonization
land-take1906
1906 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1905 287 Until a Parliament for Iceland was established in 930 these chieftains were the rulers of the island, each in his district or land-take (land~nám), as it was called.
1908 W. G. Collingwood Scand. Brit. 193 In each landtake the bóndi fixed his homestead, neither on the exposed hill-top, nor on the marshy flat.
1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 235 The method of land-take used by settlers in Iceland; they carried fire through the land they were to occupy, and around its limits.
land-taxer n. one who believes in, or advocates, the taxing of land-values.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > land tax > believer in or advocate of
land-taxer1905
1905 Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 4/1 The land taxers have an idea that valuable sites are being held back by grasping ground landlords.
1909 Daily Chron. 30 Apr. 1/6 As land-taxers, we are thoroughly satisfied that we have got a complete system of land valuation.
1928 Daily Express 6 June 2/4 Colonel Wedgwood, the famous Socialist land-taxer.
land-thief n. (a) one who robs on land or ashore; (b) a robber of land.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 23 There be land rats, and water rats, water theeues, and land theeues. View more context for this quotation
1865 C. Kingsley Hereward I. x. 229 I am Hereward the Berserker, the land-thief, the sea-thief.
1894 H. Spencer in Westm. Gaz. 29 Aug. 8/2 The stronger peoples have been land-thieves from the beginning, and have remained land-thieves down to the present hour.
land-tide n. Scottish ‘the undulating motion of the air, as perceived on a droughty day’ (Jamieson).
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1818 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Oct. 328/2 Whar the dew neer scanc't, nor the landtide danc't Nor rain had ever fawn.
land-trap n. an unfortunate speculation in land.
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1801 Spirit Farmer's Museum 205 He bought lands in Boston at the time all their great men got caught in the Georgia land trap.
land-trash n. broken ice near the shore.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > broken ice
porridge ice1820
brash1837
land-trash1856
trash1856
trash-ice1864
posh1876
rubble1876
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvi. 341 The land-trash is cemented by young ice.
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1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Land-turn, the same from off the land by night, as a Brieze is off the Sea by day.
land-value n. the economic value of land in all respects, especially as a basis for rating or taxation.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > value of land or property
rack-rental1781
site value1865
land-value1880
prairie value1881
prairie rent1882
plottage1910
1880 H. George Progress & Poverty viii. ii. 365 To abolish all taxation save that upon land values.
1896 J. Edwards Labour Ann. 51 Sir Geo. Grey introduced in New Zealand in 1878, a tax on land values of ½d in the pound.
1900 W. Smart Taxation of Land Values 38 Of late years we have heard much of a proposal called the taxation of land values.
1900 W. Smart Taxation Land Values 60 The land value assessment.
1900 Hansard's Parl. Deb. 6 Feb. 730 Land Values Taxation (Scotland) Bill.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 20 Feb. 2/2 The rates charged on the land-value basis.
1909 Daily Chron. 30 Apr. 6/4 A large accumulation of land-value increment.
1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. viii. 319 Considerable variation in land-values..occurred between 1066 and 1086.
land-valuation n.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > land tax > assessment of or valuation for
jumma1781
settlement1789
land-valuation1851
1851 Fraser's Mag. 43 117 Luckily..for railway companies,..land-valuation is a remarkably elastic art.
1908 Daily Chron. 6 Aug. 8/3 The land-valuation proposals of the Government.
land-valuer n. one whose profession is to examine and declare the value of land or landed estates.
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1844 R. Cobden Speeches (1870) I. 127 They are all auctioneers and land-valuers.
land-waiter n. = landing-waiter n. at landing n. Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > one who superintends landing of goods
land-waiter1711
coast-waiter1774
landing-waiter1797
1711 J. Swift Examiner No. 28. ⁋4 Give a Guinea to a Knavish Land-Waiter, and he shall connive at the Merchant for cheating the Queen of an Hundred.
1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 132 Land waiter or searcher, a Custom-House officer who enters goods imported.
land-war n. (a) a war waged on land, opposed to a naval war; (b) a ‘war’ or contention with respect to land or landed property.
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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > land-war
land-war1714
1714 Q. Anne in London Gaz. No. 5204/2 They are Delivered from a Consuming Land-War.
1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 228 Who, sitting in his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign,—sea-war and land-war.
1873 J. Godkin (title) The Land-War in Ireland.
land-warrant n. U.S. (see quot. 1858).
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > proof of > document > with reference to public land
land-warrant1769
scrip1819
land-scrip1834
1769 Maryland Hist. Mag. 12 285 I think you told me there was some land warrant due to you.
1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 334 Sharpers had duped so many with their unlocated land-warrants.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Land-warrant, a title to a lot of public land; an American security or official document for entering or settling upon government land, much dealt in among jobbers.
land-wash n. the wash of the tide near the shore.
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1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 114 The land wash went so sore, that it ouerthrew his boate, and one of the men was drowned.
1891 Blizzard of 1891 ii. 26 Breakers fell with great force close to the landwash and over the promenade.
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1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 68 This amphibious Creature, this Land-water-thing, call'd, a Gentleman-Tradesman.
land wheel n. the wheel of a plough that runs on the unploughed land.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > wheeled plough > wheels
land wheel1742
gauge-wheel1874
wheel-coulter1875
1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Sept. iv. 35 The Land-Wheel being obliged to go on the Turf, its Share is kept too high.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 102/3 For a one-man unit the spreader should be land-wheel-driven for ease of hitching on and off.
1970 G. E. Evans Where Beards wag All ii. 46 A two-horse iron plough with round coulter,..land and furrow wheel.
1972 Country Life 10 Feb. 321/3 It [sc. a plough] had no land wheel, so that depth had to be kept by bearing on the stilts.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > local wine
land-wine1390
vin du pays1777
branch wines1833
square gin1888
the wine of the country1888
quinta1907
vino locale1963
1390–1 Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 47 Lautre barell continente xxix stopas de lande-wyn.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie L 80 Land wine, or of our owne countrie growing, vinum indigena.
land wire n. = landline n. 2.
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1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy v. 128 Between London and Amsterdam there are 130 miles of land wire over the Great Eastern Railway, then a cable 120 miles long, and then 20 more miles of land wire.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 24 Feb. 4/1 The..cable from Ascension touches land in Cornwall.., whence a land-wire passed the signals on to Greenwich.
1930 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 23 Jan. 7/6 A microphone was installed at 10 Downing Street, and the Premier's words were carried by land wire to Chelmsford.
landworthiness n. fitness to travel over land.
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1794–1811 Ld. Ellenborough in Espinasse Rep. III. 259 He would expect a clear landworthiness in the carriage itself to be established.
land-yacht n. a land vehicle similar to a yacht.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other non-self-propelled vehicles > [noun] > land vehicle driven by sails
sailing-waggon1707
sailing-chariot1759
sailing-car1884
sand-yacht1912
land-yacht1928
1928 Daily Express 26 May 9/3 There was shown at Olympia last year a ‘land-yacht’ that was palatial in its appointments.
1967 Times 23 Jan. 9 A school that has its own land yacht, wind tunnel, go-kart and canoeing clubs.
land-yard n. local (see quot. 1828).
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1828 N. Carlisle Hist. Acct. Comm. conc. Charities 295 Two staves or 18 feet, in..Cornwall, are a Land Yard, and 160 Land Yards are an English acre.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xii. 142 I could smell supper, when hungry, through a hundred landyards of fog.
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a. the land n. the (cultivable) earth viewed as a repository of natural resources and the chief source of human sustenance or livelihood. Frequently in phrases: see back to the land n., the fat of the land at fat n.2 2c, to live off the land at live v.1 Phrases 17.
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c1382 Bible (Wycliffite) Gen. xlv. 18 I shall ȝyue to ȝow al the goodis of Egipte, that ȝe eeten the mary of the loond.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. ii. v. 67 The king used to take..the first fruits, that is to say, one year's profits of the land.
1954 W. Faulkner Fable 399 Work is the only anesthetic to which grief is vulnerable... Restoring the land would..palliate the grief.
1990 EastWest Dec. 52/2 The industrial eater is..one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who no longer imagines the connections between eating and the land.
b. on the land n. Australian in or into a rural (esp. agricultural) occupation or way of life.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [adverb]
on the land1902
1902 Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania) 20 Feb. 4/1 Go on the Land!
1930 R. V. Billis & A. S. Kenyon Pastures New iii. 50 Charles Bonney..not caring for the shackles of the Sydney Government routine, went on the land.
1984 Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Apr. 68/1 I was born on the land... I've farmed my own properties since 1948.
1989 J. Conway Road from Coorain (1990) iii. 6 The contingent of country boys in the school..expected to go back home to a cheerfully horsey life on the land.
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Land of Little Sticks n. (also Land of the Little Sticks) Canadian a sub-arctic region of northern Canada, whose vegetation includes stunted and dwarf trees. land of the free: see free n. 3b.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > Northern Canada
Land of Little Sticks1896
1896 C. Whitney On Snow-Shoes to Barren Grounds xvi. 187 No man may consider himself an expert until he has driven dogs and handled a sledge over such country as that approaching the Land of the Little Sticks.
1930 R. W. Service Coll. Verse 301 Why do you linger all alone in the splendid emptiness, Scouring the Land of the Little Sticks on the trail of the caribou?
1965 F. Symington Tuktu 9 Urged by the high suns of May, the snow retreats through the land of the Little Sticks and the caribou pour out on the tundra.
1993 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Aug. 39/1 East of the North Arm, you're in the Land of Little Sticks, the Dene name for the rugged granite and uncountable lakes of the Canadian Shield where stunted birches, pine and spruce somehow cling to the rock.
land of opportunity n. (applied esp. to the United States of America).
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States
states1776
United States1776
Yankee-land1803
God's own country1807
U.S.1834
Yankland1834
yankeedoodledom1845
Yankeedom1851
the land of the free1884
land of opportunity1948
U.S. of A.1973
1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 636 New Mexico..has also been called..the Land of Opportunity.
1965 J. Von Sternberg Fun in Chinese Laundry (1966) i. 11 Had the land of opportunity been good to him, he might have taken time out to reflect.
1991 D. Rieff Los Angeles ii. vi. 100 It was said that criminals from South Central L.A. referred to the Westside and the Valley as the ‘lands’ for lands of opportunity.
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land developer n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of houses > speculative
developer1863
speculative builder1868
field ranger1876
private developer1911
land developer1961
1961 Providence Jrnl. 3 Feb. 21/7 While land developers tell them when, where, and in what manner the community shall grow.
1984 S. Bellow Him with his Foot in his Mouth 33 Numerous failed entrepreneurs had preceded him in this private park, the oilmen and land developers who had caused this monument to be built.
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land management n.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > parkland > [noun] > land management or park-keeping
land management1944
1944 E. H. Graham Nat. Princ. Land Use xiv. 230 To many people, ecology and land management are very general terms.
1988 National Trust Thames & Chilterns News Spring 1 Balance is fundamental to the Trust's policy and is vital to good rural land management.
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land manager n.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > parkland > [noun] > land management or park-keeping > one who
curator1761
park ranger1820
parkie1871
land manager1909
park warden1936
1909 Westm. Gaz. 16 June 1/3 A skilful land-manager undoubtedly confers a benefit on the public.
1986 Farmers Weekly 3 Jan. 9/4 Land managers should meet the market demand for food.
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land settlement n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > establishing residence
settlementa1684
domiciliation1816
domestication1866
land settlement1924
settling in1955
1924 S. H. Roberts Hist. Austral. Land Settlement p. xiii I conceived the idea of surveying the whole field of land settlement.
1987 N.Y. Times 5 Aug. a26/2 A merging of Sri Lanka's northern and eastern provinces into a single united province with its own legislature and control of law enforcement and land settlement.
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land-bound adj.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [adjective]
fieldena1425
rustic?1440
citylessc1450
champestrea1492
rural?a1500
rustical1542
agrestc1550
predial1592
champestrial1612
agrestic1617
agrestical1623
agrested1650
upland1654
countrified1756
agrestian1812
country1827
mofussil1828
agrestial1840
landward1844
bucolic1846
out-country1939
land-bound1972
1972 F. Raphael April, June & Nov. 382 Sometimes their captains become landbound and turn into shopkeepers.
1983 G. Priestland At Large 124 We seem to have become a landbound people who no longer do business in great waters.
1993 Sci. Amer. Jan. 90/2 For land-bound latecomers such as primates.., the only possible means of access to Madagascar was by ‘rafting’.
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land terrapin n. (also transferred).
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > tortoise or land turtle
tortoise1398
shellpad1553
shell-paddock1565
land-turtle1697
land terrapin1709
land-tortoise1774
land chelonian1880
1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 133 The Land-Terebin is of several Sizes, but generally Round-Mouth'd and not Hawks-Bill'd, as some are.
1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. V. 65 The spinose land-terrapin (Geoëmyda spinosa).
1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) i. 28 Turtles found in Florida are..the mud turtles, and a land terrapin which is peculiar to the State.
1952 B. Harwin Home is Upriver i.9 Kip did not know these people, except that they were river folk, and therefore not strangers like the land terrapins.
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landnam n. [ < Danish landnam occupation of land (J. Iversen 1941, in Danmarks Geol. Undersøgelse 2nd Ser. 66); compare landnám n. at Compounds 3.] Archaeology the clearance of forested land for (usually short-term) agricultural purposes; esp. such an event as evidenced by sudden changes in pollen spectra.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > felling trees
fallinga1425
felling1447
fell1531
fall1535
woodfall1588
slaughter1657
logging1706
tree-felling1759
fallage1788
slashing1822
fellage1839
wood-cutting1872
throw1879
bush-falling1882
drive1899
bushwhacking1906
clear-cutting1922
coupe1922
landnam1950
1950 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past (ed. 2) iv. 78 Iversen holds that these changes indicate the arrival of farmers, the phase of landnam or land occupation, that the charcoal comes from clearance fires.
1973 P. A. Colinvaux Introd. Ecol. vii. 108 A landnam event has been found in many parts of Europe, everywhere first dated at about 5000 years ago and suggesting that men quickly learnt the new ways from each other throughout the whole continent.
1980 K. Randsborg Viking Age in Denmark iv. 53 The first stage is the Neolithic landnam, which, for example, is earlier on the Danish islands than in, say, southern Norway.
1991 Antiquity 65 997/2 One can more easily envisage the strategy of midslope settlement and radial remuages as a late rationalization of a landnam.
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land-wash n. originally and chiefly North American, the part of a beach which is washed by the sea.
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1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. 26 Oct. (1792) I. 49 They had tailed a trap on the land-wash at the head of Niger Sound.
1969 F. Mowat Boat who wouldn't Float iii. 22 Two-score..houses..clambered up the slope from the landwash.
1991 Newfoundland Lifestyle Aug. 19/3 Sail out of it she did, to the applause and wonder of about a thousand people on the wharf, along the landwash, and on the low hill across the road.
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As the second element in compounds: forming nouns with the senses ‘the notional realm or domain dominated by or centred around ——’, ‘a world typified or characterized by ——’.
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1831 T. Moore Summer Fête 498 Two Exquisites, a he and she, Just brought from Dandyland, and meant For Fashion's grand Menagerie.
1891 A. Conan Doyle Red-headed League in Strand Mag. Aug. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land where..there are no red-headed clients to vex us.
1906 Daily Chron. 6 Nov. 3/3 They live in ‘dot-and-dash-land’, in a world of broken utterances, implied confidences, and vague memories.
1920 E. Wharton Let. 12 Dec. (1988) 434 Give my best love to Mary, & tell her that I count on her too, after grandchild-land.
1969 A. MacLean Puppet on Chain ii. 35 People operating on the fringes of junky-land.
1988 S. Rushdie Satanic Verses v. i. 266 Chamcha had long suspected he'd made up the story, with its perfect ad-land components—Scandinavian icequeen, two thugs, expensive cars, Valance in the Blofeld role and 007 nowhere on the scene.
2000 A. Calcutt Brit Cult 433/2 The traditional Aga-tale of adultery in Barbour-land.
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Landn.2
/lant/, /land/, U.S. /lɑnt/, /lɑnd//ˈlɛndə/, U.S. /ˈlɛndər/, Laender Brit. /ˈlɛndə/, U.S. /ˈlɛndər/, Lands. A semi-autonomous unit of local government in Germany and Austria.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > unit of local government in Germany or Austria
Land1920
1920 G. Young New Germany 321 The transformation of this Constitution from a centralised republic..back to a federation has been reviewed already. The word ‘lander’ is literally translated for this and other reasons.]
1920 H. W. V. Temperley Hist. Peace Conf. Paris III. 347 The word Länder..has been deliberately used instead of the word Staaten... The word States for the members of a federal Constitution seems therefore to be misleading as expressly repudiated and ‘Lands’ is used, a new word coined by Professor Young.
1920 H. W. V. Temperley Hist. Peace Conf. Paris III. 348 Article 5. Constitutional power is exercised..in matters pertaining to the Lands, by the Constitutional bodies of those Lands within the lines laid down by the constitutions of those Lands.
1950 W. Theimer & P. Campbell Encycl. World Politics 42 Austria became a federal republic, consisting of eight Lands.
1955 Times 26 Aug. 7/2 Many wage agreements are settled on a Land and not a federal basis.
1958 Listener 9 Oct. 571/1 In the Laender under its sway..it [sc. Austria] produced the nearest approach to the Welfare State that existed before its establishment in the United Kingdom.
1966 Economist 13 Aug. 633/1 The ambitious and consequently hard-pressed Länder are demanding that..Bonn's share of the tax-collectors' booty should be no more than 35 per cent.
1969 Nature 15 Nov. 633/2 The German universities are at present the responsibility of the Länder.
1973 Times 30 Jan. 4/6 The four Länder—Hamburg, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein—have asked the Bonn Government to sanction a boycott.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
landv.
/land/, U.S. /lænd/ I. Transitive senses.† 4. To throw (a bridge) across a river. Obsolete.† 5. To bestow land upon. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
1.
a. To bring to land; to set on shore; to disembark.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > put off or discharge (from) a ship
landa1300
uncharge13..
dischargec1384
lightc1400
unladec1436
unshipa1450
loss1482
disbark1552
defreight1555
unbark1555
disload1568
inshore1577
unfreight1580
disembark1582
to bring aboarda1600
unload1599
dislade1609
shore?1615
unliver1637
debark1655
to take offa1688
a1300 K. Horn 779 A gode schup he hurede, Þat him scholde londe In Westene londe.
1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 215 The skippar bad ger land the at the Bas.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xii. sig. Ff3v I see the Water-man prepare to Land us.
1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. ii. §79. 472/1 He Landed an Army in Apulia.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xiv. 286 Our ships, when we should land our men, would keep at..a distance.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. xx. 149 The troops, having been landed in Cephallenia.
1842 T. Campbell Napoleon & Brit. Sailor 64 He should be shipped to England Old And safely landed.
1894 H. Caine Manxman v. iii. 288 Four hundred boats were coming..to land their cargoes.
b. To bring to the surface (from a mine). ? Obsolete.
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1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) xi. 91 These persons will Lande about..hundred barells of coale in a daye.
c. passive. In Canada, to be given the status of a landed immigrant (see landed adj.2 3).
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1910 Statutes of Canada c. 27, s. 2 (p) ‘Land’, ‘landed’ or ‘landing’, as applied to passengers or immigrants, means their lawful admission into Canada by an officer under this Act, otherwise than for inspection or treatment or other temporary purpose provided for by this Act.
1962 Canada Month Aug. 16/3 They arrived from an Italian refugee camp in three groups around mid-month, were duly ‘landed’ by immigration officials.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 May 3/3 So far 22,905 have actually been ‘landed’—given legal status as landed immigrants—and it's just a matter of time before most of the others achieve the same goal.
2.
a. To bring into a specified place, e.g. as a stage in or termination of a journey; to bring into a certain position: usually with adverbial phrase. Also figurative to bring into a certain position or to a particular point in a course or process. (Cf. 8.)
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > bring into a position
reduce?a1475
enter1563
land1649
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Ep. Ded. sig. a 3v It is onely a holy life that lands us there [i.e. in heaven].
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved ix. 57 This drain to be continued to that place where you have most conveniencie to land your water.
1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 217 The pantheist, when compelled to explain himself, is landed in atheism.
1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry xix Now then, give us your hand; one foot on the box, one on the roller-bolt, and now you're landed.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians II. i. 4 Poor Harry's fine folks have been too fine for him, and have ended by landing him here.
1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxviii. 271 A jerk that nearly landed me on his [the horse's] back.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 200 The pass over the Cottian Alps..would have landed Hannibal in the territory of the Taurini.
1882 W. Besant Revolt of Man (1883) vi. 126 Such a sermon..would infallibly land its composer..in a prison.
1892 Bookman Oct. 29/2 His wife, his temperament, his philanthropy contrive to land him in fraudulent bankruptcy.
b. To set down from a vehicle. (Cf. 8b.)
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > set down
to set down1669
to put down1795
to leave off1848
land1853
to put off1867
drop1961
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iii. 108 The Exeter Fly..having..landed its passengers for supper and sleep.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xxvii. 213 One chair after another landed ladies at the Baroness's door.
1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella II. iii. i. 267 His hansom landed him at the door of a great mansion.
c. slang. To set (a person) ‘on his feet’.
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1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead ii. vi Lord Ticehurst, having done his duty in landing Gilbert [viz. by giving him an introduction], had strolled away.
1876 W. Green & C. Hindley Life & Adventures Cheap Jack 33 I bought a big covered cart and a good strong horse. And I was landed!
1879 ‘Autobiog. of a Thief’ in Macmillan's Mag. XL. 502 I was landed (was all right) this time without them getting me up a lead (a collection).
d. Nautical. To lower on to the deck or elsewhere by a rope or tackle.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. To land on deck. A nautical anomaly, meaning to lower casks or weighty goods on deck from the tackles.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 61 Land them on the taffrail.
e. slang. To get (a blow) home. Also intransitive with out.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > deal or give (a stroke or blow) > accurately or effectively
fastenc1225
fastc1330
to send homea1627
to fetch overa1640
plant1808
land1886
1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 93/1 He landed him a little one on his left ogle.
1888 J. Runciman Chequers 93 Their object is to land one cunning blow.
1891 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 110 That's right, Captain Kitty!.. Land him [sc. the Devil] one in the eye.
1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 2 That on'y made Bill madder 'n ever, an' 'e lands aht wiv 'is right, but the Gent. jest ketched 'is arm.
1912 Chambers's Jrnl. June 395/2 After sparring for five minutes, and frustrating every attempt you made to ‘land’ on him, he would sit down.
1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 5 Oct. 274/3 Why didn't his man ‘land out’ at the insulting blighter?
f. Horse Racing colloquial (with and without complement.) To bring (a horse) ‘home’, i.e. to the winning post; to place first in a race. Also intransitive to get in first, win.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > ride horse in race [verb (transitive)] > state place > place first
land1853
1853 G. J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand I. vi. 151 St. Agatha..after one of the finest races on record, is landed a winner by a neck.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 291 A shower of flukes at the latter end landed him the winner.
1891 Licensed Victualler's Gaz. 20 Mar. (Farmer) Had the French filly landed, what a shout would have arisen from the ring!
1898 Daily News 28 May 8/3 The Prince's colours were landed amid enthusiastic cheering.
g. Machine knitting. To secure (a loop) on the closed beard of a needle.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > knit > processes involved in
purla1825
rib1837
to cast on1840
increase1840
slip1840
turn1846
toe1856
to knock over1875
to cast off1880
land1885
rep1951
raschel1970
1885 W. T. Rowlett tr. G. Willkomm Technol. Framework Knitting II. iii. 145 These sinkers..must move up and down, and backwards and forwards, so as to sink the thread into loops, bring them forward under the needle beards, land and knock over the old stitches, and..lock in the new stitches, and take them to the back of the needles.
1926 J. Chamberlain Knitting Math. & Mech. v. 98 Using different lengths of beards in the same machine may result in certain loops not being landed, and consequently not cast off.
1952 D. F. Paling Warp Knitting Technol. i. 6 The old fabric loops on their upward movement pass over the tips of the beards which are embedded in the needle eyes, and the old loops are landed on to the closed beards.
h. To bring (an aircraft) to earth from the air; to place (an aircraft or spacecraft, or its contents) on the ground or some other surface after a flight.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (transitive)] > land
land1916
to touch down1935
to put down1939
1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 49 I'll guarantee to safely land the fastest machine in a five-acre field.
1926 Encycl. Brit. I. 65/2 Attempts were later made to land machines on this forward deck [of the aircraft carrier].
1931 Times 19 Feb. 17/2 There was a difference of opinion as to who should land the flying boat?—Very definitely.
1932 W. E. Johns Camels are Coming ii. 35 Agents..are usually taken over by aircraft; sometimes they drop by parachute and sometimes we land them.
1944 H. F. Gregory Anything Horse can Do xvi. 172 There are a lot of things that we have to do to this machine before you can take off and land it.
1952 K. W. Gatland Devel. Guided Missile vi. 103 (caption) Instead of landing the entire space-ship, a secondary rocket will descend to the surface.
1962 Times 30 Apr. 12/7 Russia's latest earth satellite has been successfully landed in a predetermined area.
1967 J. Rowland Jet Man vi. 59 Now Whittle's experience of aerobatics came in useful, for he had to ‘land’ the machine in the water.
1968 Ann. Reg. 1967 178 The two accidents were a severe setback to American plans to land a man on the moon before 1970.
1972 Nature 3 Mar. 3/1 It is simply too dangerous to attempt to land a manned spacecraft in the lunar mountains.
3.
a. Angling. To bring (a fish) to land, esp. by means of a gaff, hook, or net. Also, to land the net.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > bring to bank
landa1609
play1740
work1825
bank1837
creel1844
grass1856
to bring (a hooked fish) to gaff1886
to play along1921
a1609 J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) ii. xxi. sig. C6v Then with a Net see how at last he lands, A mighty Carpe.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iv. 105 Help me to land this as you did the other. View more context for this quotation
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 15 A landing net, to land large fish with, and which are made with joints to fold up in a small compass.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling viii. 262 When you have hooked a greyling, your next job is to land him.
1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. lxxi. §14 Any person who shall..work any seine or draft net for salmon..within one hundred yards from..any other seine or draft net..before such last-mentioned net is fully drawn in and landed, shall..be liable [etc.].
1883 Manch. Examiner 30 Oct. 8/4 I will not trouble you with an account of the trout and grayling we landed during the first two or three days of our visit.
1884 D. Pae Eustace 62 They were pretty constantly engaged in shooting and landing the net.
b. figurative. To catch or ‘get hold of’ (a person); to secure or win (a sum of money, esp. in betting or horse racing). Also, to obtain (employment). Also absol.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > win a sum of money
land1854
society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [verb (transitive)] > obtain employment
land1926
1854 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gen. Bounce II. xx. 114 I landed a hundred gold mohrs by backing his new lot for the Governor-General's Cup.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. vii. 375 You must be gentle with me if you want to land me.
1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City vi. 143 So that they land their bets, what do they care?
1884 Black in Harper's Mag. Dec. 24/1 I can't say I've landed a fortune over its tips.
1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz viii. 167 That is another reason why the outsider fails to land. He doesn't know about these rogues.
1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh iii. 175 I'll bet you tink yuh're goin' out and land a job, too.
1952 W. Granville Dict. Theatr. Terms 108 Land a spot, obtain an engagement.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [verb (transitive)] > span with a bridge
overbridgeeOE
bridgeOE
land1637
span1861
1637 Petit. to Chas. I in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 91 They may be suffered at their owne chardge to land a bridge over ye river.
1638 King Charles I Let. to King's College in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 91 To permitt them at their owne charge to land a bridge from the middest of yt or Colledge.
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a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) i. i. 12 Thou hast monied mee in this nay Landed mee..& putt mee in a large posseion.
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a. to land up: to fill or block up (a watercourse, pond, etc.) partially or wholly with earth; to silt up.
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1605 A. Willet Hexapla in Genesin 30 Gobaris caused the naturall current, landed vp, to be opened and enlarged.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 307 Diabolus sought..to land up Mouthgate with durt.
1793 R. Mylne Rep. Surv. Thames improving Navigation 16 These lands have a very imperfect drainage at present, by the water~courses and ditches being landed up.
1815 W. Marrat Hist. Lincs. III. 243 A serpentine fish pond..partly landed up.
1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 300 The river became landed up by the sediment of the tides.
b. To earth up (celery). Also with up.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivate plants or crops [verb (transitive)] > earth up
bank1577
hill1577
mould1601
earth1658
heela1722
to set up1801
landa1806
stitch1805
soil1844
earthen1904
a1806 Abercrombie in Loudon Gardening (1822) iii. i. 723 Repeat this..till by degrees they are landed up from twelve inches to two feet.
1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin i. 4 Celery, that wanted landing.
II. Intransitive senses.
7. To come to land; to go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark. Of a ship, etc.: To touch at a place in order to set down passengers.In early use occasionally conjugated with the verb to be.
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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > disembark or go ashore
landc1384
descendc1405
aland1578
disembark1582
disbark1585
shore1600
disboard?1615
debark1694
deboard1962
society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > reach land or port
arrivec1275
to take landc1330
uprive1338
to run up?c1450
land1748
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Macc. iii. 42 The oost appliede, or londide [L. applicabant], at the coostis of hem.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 151 Irisch Scottes londede at Argoyl.
c1400 Sir Beues p. 24 (MS. S.) With her ship þere gon þey lond.
a1450 Le Morte Arth. 3054 He wende to haue landyd..At Dower.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xvii The Sarasyns ar londed in their countreyes mo than xl M.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cclixv He had knowlege..that the Frenche army, entended to land in the Isle of Wight.
1611 Bible (King James) Acts xxi. 3 We..sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre. View more context for this quotation
1661 J. Dryden To His Sacred Majesty sig. A2 Thus (Royall Sir) to see you landed here Was cause enough of triumph for a year.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 156 Behold him landed, careless and asleep, From all th' eluded dangers of the deep!
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xiii. 276 No place where it was possible that a boat could land.
1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) II. ii. 25 The dog..landed at the same stairs where the boats land.
1882 B. M. Croker Proper Pride I. ii. 11 Among the passengers who landed at Southampton from the Peninsular and Oriental Rosetta.
8. † c. figurative. To fall, light (upon). Obsolete.
a. literal and figurative. To arrive at a place, a stage in a journey, or the like; to come to a stage in a progression; to end in something. Also with up. (Cf. 2.)
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > fall to one
shootc1175
happen1477
to come in one's way1533
land1679
to come a person's waya1816
to drop into the lap of1962
society > travel > aspects of travel > arrival > arrive [verb (intransitive)]
to come toOE
comeOE
yworthOE
lend11..
lightc1225
overtakec1225
redea1275
wina1300
'rivec1300
repaira1325
applyc1384
to come ina1399
arrivec1400
attainc1400
alightc1405
to come to handc1450
unto-comec1450
apport1578
to get through1589
reach1591
to be along1597
land1679
engage1686
to get in1863
to breeze in1930
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > reach a point or place [verb (intransitive)] > arrive
comeOE
to come to townOE
yworthOE
lend11..
lightc1225
to come anovenonc1275
wina1300
'rivec1300
repaira1325
applyc1384
to come ina1399
rede?a1400
arrivec1400
attainc1400
alightc1405
to come to handc1450
unto-comec1450
apport1578
to be along1597
to drop in1609
to come ona1635
to walk in1656
land1679
engage1686
to come along1734
to get in1863
to turn up1870
to fall in1900
to lob1916
to roll up1920
to breeze in1930
to rock up1975
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > be at an end [verb (intransitive)] > end in something
finish1490
terminate1613
land1679
society > travel > aspects of travel > arrival > arrive [verb (intransitive)] > end up (in a certain place)
to wind up1918
land1958
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > reach a point or place [verb (intransitive)] > arrive > finish up at a place
to wind up1918
land1958
1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 153 Landing by the first pair of Stairs with your Face towards the East.
1721 A. Ramsay Elegy Patie Birnie iii When strangers landed.
1726 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 243 Thus this matter is entered on; where it will land, the Lord himself direct.
1727 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 304 If any subordination and dependence [of the Persons of the Trinity]..were asserted, he could not but think it would land in a dependent and independent God.
1927 H. Crane Let. 19 Mar. (1965) 291 I had just landed in town after three months with the bossy cows.
1958 Listener 30 Oct. 694/3 They [sc. migrants] land up, exhausted, on islands and headlands.
1965 Listener 2 Sept. 351/2 After unspecified work in a map shop he landed up, furnished with a testimonial from Charles Graves, in the publishing house of Novello.
b. To alight upon the ground, e.g. from a vehicle, after a leap, etc. Esp. of an aircraft or spacecraft, or a person in one: to alight upon or reach the ground, or some other surface, after a flight. (Cf. 2b.)
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society > travel > aspects of travel > arrival > arrive [verb (intransitive)] > of aircraft or spacecraft or person in one
land1693
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > descend and settle > on the ground
land1693
ground1751
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > alight from a vehicle
dismount1594
avale1596
land1693
alight1704
to step out1753
unlight1796
to hop in (also out)1955
deboard1960
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > land
land1784
alight1786
to sit down1926
to put down1933
to touch down1933
to hit the deck1943
1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer iii. ii Lady Susan. There's a Coach stopt, I hope 'tis hers. Jano. 'Tis my Lady Trickit's; she's just Landed.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4427/14 To receive them as they Landed out of their Coaches.
1784 V. Lunardi Acct. First Aërial Voy. in Eng. 37 My principal care was to avoid a violent concussion at landing, and in this my good fortune was my friend. At twenty minutes past four I descended in a spacious meadow.
1814 Sporting Mag. 43 287 The spot where the horse took off to where he landed is above eighteen feet.
1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow III. ii. 24 It landed among some cabbage-leaves.
1899 H. G. Wells When Sleeper Wakes xxiv. 326 On Blackheath no aëroplane had landed.
1908 H. G. Wells War in Air ii. 60 The balloon was bumping as though its occupants were trying to land.
1911 W. Kaempffert New Art of Flying xiv. 238 Ely's remarkable feat in landing on the deck of a warship in the harbour of San Francisco.
1912 Q. Rev. July 246 To be able to start and land is perhaps as important.
1912 Aeroplane 12 Dec. 584/2 Each pilot landing at such an aerodrome would pay proper garage fees for the time he stayed.
1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings ii. 45 The machine in question was probably hit, however, for it did not return, and I saw it begin a glide as though the pilot meant to land.
1917 C. C. Turner Aircraft of To-day vii. 116 When the sea is calm the pilot often finds it anything but easy to see when to flatten out to ‘land’.
1930 Times 11 Nov. 16/4 She [sc. a flying boat] circled the station and then landed in comparatively calm water.
1952 Oxf. Junior Encycl. X. 7/2 When landing, the pilot is guided on to the deck by the Deck Control Officer who signals with ‘bats’.
1953 D. Leslie & G. Adamski (title) Flying saucers have landed.
1969 Times 21 July 1/1 The first word from man on the moon came from Aldrin: ‘Tranquillity base. The Eagle has landed.’
1973 Sci. Amer. Dec. 102/1 If the birds are pursued, they take off, but they do not fly far before they land again.
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a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 11 Each parcel of comfort landed jump..in the same model of Ground.
1727 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 304 We inquired into the reports, found them all land on Mr. Simson.
d. With on. Of an aircraft: to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Hence landing-on n.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > landing > on deck of aircraft carrier
landing-on1937
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > land > on deck of aircraft carrier
land1937
1937 Aeroplane 9 June 691/1 The ship was headed into wind and permission to land-on was given to the first Nimrod.
1937 Aeroplane 16 June 724/1 The landing-on is organised similarly to the flying-off.
1939 Nature 8 Apr. 592/2 ‘Landing on’ had proved safer than driving a car on an English road.
1954 P. K. Kemp Fleet Air Arm 95 They took off and landed on without difficulty, completely independent of the sea.
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e. figurative. to land on one's feet = to fall on (also upon) one's feet at fall v. Phrases 1e. Cf. to light on (also upon) one's feet (or legs). colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > have good fortune
light?c1225
urec1440
to fall on (also upon) one's feet1574
to fall on (also upon) one's legs1723
to strike it rich1834
to strike oil1860
to luck out1902
to hit the jackpot1910
to bottom on (also upon) gold1926
to strike lucky1951
to hit (also strike, etc.) pay dirt1953
to land on one's feet1958
1958 P. Branch Murder's Little Sister iii. 32 Landing slap on your feet like a ruddy cat! Well, eight lives to go.
1979 J. C. Oates Unholy Loves iii. 207 He's in California..being interviewed by one of the state universities... At least he'll land on his feet.
1990 E. Blair Maggie Jordan iii. 67 You've certainly landed on your feet getting a job at Templeton's.
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