| 单词 | queen's chain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasQueen's Chain Queen's Chain n. chiefly New Zealand and Caribbean a strip of publicly-owned access land along coasts and waterways. [So called because the strip is Crown land (see Crown land n. 1), and was originally one chain (approximately 20 metres) wide.] ΚΠ 1865 West Coast Times (Hokitika, N.Z.) 24 Aug. 2/3 A slaughterman..was charged..for obstructing a public thoroughfare, he having erected a slaughter-yard..on what is termed the Queen's Chain, a strip of ground one chain wide, extending from high-water mark inland, and which is by law a public highway. 1977 Landscape (N.Z.) Dec. 15 The Queen's Chain concept is as appropriate right now to the new idealism of environmental management as it was to the nineteenth century problems of land grabbing..and lack of roads. 2019 CANA News (Nexis) 10 July There are..aspects of this Cabot St. Lucia project that raise questions... There is the fundamental matter of..the right of access by the people to the beaches and the Queen's Chain in that area. < as lemmas |
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