sidelandn.adj.
/ˈsʌɪdland/, /ˈsʌɪdlənd/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdˌlænd/ A. n.
1. Chiefly English regional (western) and Welsh English. In singular and (more usually) in plural. Land on the side of a hill; sloping ground.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > side
lithOE
sideOE
hillside?a1400
braea1500
bankside1586
sidehill1607
sidelanda1722
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 5 The side-lands in the hill country are always the poorest, because the good grete, or mold, is washed down by rain.
1794 J. Clark Gen. View Agric. Brecknock 17 If the water be collected from common hills, or other pasture grounds that are hanging, or side lands where sheep and cattle have depastured for some time.
1826 Morning Chron. 4 July The sidelands with a south aspect, in many places, are quite destitute of vegetation.
1878 Q. Jrnl. Meteorol. Soc. 4 213 The ground slopes away to the sea; sometimes the descent of the sideland is extremely abrupt, at other spots more gradual.
1972 Country Life 30 Mar. 815/1 Further south in Devon..are extremely fertile sidelands that produce some of the best swedes..and corn, beef and lamb.
1999 D. Parry Gram. & Gloss. Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dial. Rural Wales 184/2 Sideland, sloping ground.
2014 N. Devon Gaz. (Nexis) 12 Nov. You'll see quite a difference to the east coast sidelands in the summer.
2. Agriculture. Either of the two strips of land at either side of a ploughed field. Cf. headland n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land > headland
headOE
headlandOE
lea-riga1170
Land's endc1394
headrig1475
hade?1523
land-end1555
furlong1649
hade-way1649
head-ridge1659
sideland1763
headmark1820
turn-row1885
1763 Museum Rusticum I. xx. 101 This practice of carrying the upper bed of earth from the head and side lands on to the field, is very common among the Essex farmers.
1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk I. 297 The headlands and sidelands being cleared, the area is drawn and carried off, warp for warp.
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Sidelands, the outside parts of a ploughed field, adjoining the hedges, running parallel with the lands or warps.
1858 J. C. Morton New Farmer's Almanac 34/1 The wheel upon the anchorage..can drag itself along the side land as much as is required for the gradual shifting of the ploughs as the work is completed.
1920 Trans. Amer. Soc. Agric. Engin. 13 84 You use side lands and head lands the same as you do with tractors and finish up those lands afterwards.
1999 H. Bakker Sugar Cane Cultiv. & Managem. xx. 320 Depending on the shape of the field, it may be practicable to leave the side-land narrower where it runs parallel to the direction of the furrow.
B. adj.
Chiefly English regional (western). Of land or ground: sloping; hilly. Now rare.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [adjective]
clininga1552
sideling1577
sidelong1587
sideland1771
1771 R. Dossie Mem. Agric. II. x. 142 Many of his plantations are on very side-land grounds.
1792 11th Rep. Commissioners Woods, Forests & Land Revenues Crown 117 We have much Sideland uneven Ground, where Cultivation cannot take Place.
1828 Sporting Mag. 23 104 The sideland, uneven parts of ground such as small mole-hills.
1871 Gardeners' Chron. 11 Feb. 181/3 These fields..were so sideland that they could not take an empty wagon there.
1967 F. Archer Distant Scene v. 36 The ground's a bit sideland.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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