单词 | lea-land |
释义 | lea-landlay-landn. Fallow land; land ‘laid down’ to grass. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > fallow land faugha1325 lea-landc1325 crestc1440 white land1459 fallow1523 hade?1523 rest-field1578 brise1600 summertilth1622 ardera1642 naked fallow1684 soil bank1955 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1325 |
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