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单词 mountain-land
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mountain-land
mountain-land n. [compare post-classical Latin terra montana (Vulgate)] (a) (esp. in Ireland and New England) rough unenclosed pastureland, often on the slopes of hills (cf. sense A. 1e); (b) Caribbean cultivable land on a mountain slope; (c) gen. mountainous country.
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1519 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 206 James Birse my nephew..all the lands, closes, etc with mountain land..which I have of the lease of William Carrant Esquire.
1667 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 39 Barren mountaine lands, not worth six pence an acre yearely.
1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane i. Argt. sig. Bv Begin to plant mountain-land in July.
1797 J. A. Graham Descriptive Sketch Vermont 166 There is much Mountain land in these districts.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxviii. 95 When he did address Himself to quit at length this mountain land.
1880 Spectator 21 Aug. 1065 The mountain land over which the tenants have had for generations a right of stray for their cattle.
1952 H. H. Gerth & D. A. Martindale tr. M. Weber Anc. Judaism i. i. 5 The Syrian-Palestinian mountainland was by turns exposed to Mesopotamian and to Egyptian influences.
1977 Democrat (Basseterre, St. Kitts) 10 Dec. 1 Reserving the Mountain-Lands for sale to the hundreds of peasants who for generations have eked a living from these locations.
1995 M. Collins Colour of Forgetting 151 In the Attaseat mountain-land, the trees..seemed confidently unaware of how radically the times were changing.
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