| 单词 | land-take |
| 释义 | > as lemmasland-take 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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