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单词 lea-land
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lea-landlay-landn.

Brit. /ˈliːland/, /ˈleɪland/, U.S. /ˈliˌlænd/, /ˈleɪˌlænd/
Forms: Middle English leylond, Middle English–1500s leland(e, Middle English–1800s ley-land, 1600s lee-, 1500s– lay-land, 1600s– lea-land.
Etymology: < lea adj. + land n.1
Fallow land; land ‘laid down’ to grass.
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c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 153/4 Le ffally lest sa tere freche [glossed leylond].
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 131 On a ley-land Hard I hym blaw. He commys here at hand.
1553 Short Catech. Liturgies, etc. (1844) 525 The husbandmen, that first use to shrubbe and root out the thorns, brambles, and weeds, out of their lay-land and unlooked to.
a1595 Descr. Isles Scotl. in W. Skene Celtic Scotl. (1880) III. App. iii. 437 All teillit land, and na girs but ley land.
1671 Shetland Document in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1892) 26 194 To provyde laufull tennents for his Majesteis ley lands within the said Bailyerie.
1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry ii. ii Smaller ploughs, which are not strong enough to rip up the fallow grounds or lay-lands.
1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iv. 314 They ride the lealand highways, they ride the desert plain.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Leylands, arable land under a grass crop. The word is a very common name for pasture fields; to be found in the terriers of most estates. It will never be found in connection with meadow land proper, but it will usually denote land once arable but now ‘laid’ down.
Proverbial phrase.c1500 Payne & Sorowe Evyll Maryage 140 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 79 Yf she than wyll be no better, Set her upon a lelande, and bydde the devyll fet her.1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. I3v I thinke she is better lost then found..and they would be ruld by me, they should set her on the Leland, and bid the Diuell split her.1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xiv. §1. 226 She..is now..abhorred..forsaken and disrespected..set on a Lea land as they say, and disrespected.
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