black landn.

Brit.

/ˈblak ˌland/, U.S.

/ˈblæk ˌlænd/

Forms: see black adj. and n. and land n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., land n.¹

Etymology: < black adj. + land n.¹Attested earlier in place names, as Blakeland, Wiltshire (1195; now Blackland).

1. In singular and plural. Land or soil of a dark colour.Often with a connotation of richness or fertility; sometimes with a connotation of difficult working.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > dark soil

black land1598

black soil1700

hen mould1712

mulatto land1741

mulatto soil1789

black cotton ground1804

mulatto loam1837

mulatto mould1838

black bottom1841

black turf1897

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies xxi. 347/1 Eastwarde it descendeth towardes a black lande, which seemeth to be a close and thick bushie place, lying full vnder 9. degrees, & ½.

1670 A. Martindale Let. 2 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 295 Our black-land (or Mosse-land) will give good oates barley and beanes especially the last.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 62 Gouty, moorish, peaty, cold, black Land. This sort of Land, in Staffordshire they order much the same with the heathy Land, only they burn it deeper.

1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 43 That they call White-land, appears of a much lighter Colour than their Black-land: Slides off the Plough-share with Ease;..whereas the Black-land..sticks to the Plough-Irons.

1804 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. IX. 140 On the low, or, what is commonly called, black land, the timber is chiefly white and Norway pine, spruce, and hemlock.

1877 S. B. J. Skertchly Geol. of Fenland 130 It is usual [in Lincolnshire] to speak of ‘moory land’, ‘black land’, or ‘fen’ where the soil is peaty.

1888 Science 18 May 241/2 The dark-tinted loam-deposits at present forming on the edge of that lake being already familiar, it was easy to recognize in the ‘black-lands’ belt..the earliest border of that basin.

1910 Sat. Evening Post 8 Oct. 10/3 John Simmons lived on a black-land farm in central Missouri.

1918 Times 20 Mar. 7/5 What are ordinarily the cheapest potatoes. i.e., those grown on the Black-lands in Cambridgeshire.

1922 C. E. Belknap Yesterdays of Grand Rapids 135 Ditches and drains have left but little evidence of this basin of water and rich black land.

1967 Times 16 Mar. 10/5 The great Fen plain is remarkable for..young cathedrals soaring above the black lands like mountains.

2006 R. Rees Anc. Egyptians (new ed.) 7/1 The level of the river fell. As it fell, a strip of rich, black land emerged along each of its banks.

2. U.S. A region of tall-grass prairie in Texas that is now regarded as a distinctive ecosystem. Frequently attributive.

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1844 G. W. Featherstonhaugh Excursion through Slave States xxxii. 119/1 He believed..that the black land of which all these prairies [in the Mexican province of Texas] consisted, and which in a rainy time was so waxy that it was difficult to walk or stir in it, was about five miles in breadth.

1856 Galveston (Texas) Weekly News 9 Sept. 2/8 The greater part of the tract is the gradual transition from black sand to stiff black land, which is well known to be very fertile, and easily cultivated.

1893 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly July 93/1 The black land..is the most valuable in Texas, not excepting the famous Red River bottom lands.

1927 E. B. Reynolds & D. T. Killough Crop Rotation Blackland Region Central Texas 5 The Blackland region of central Texas has been noted for the productiveness, or fertility of its soils.

1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xxi. 269 The native hackberry of the Edwards Plateau and of the blackland prairies is the rough-leaved hackberry.

2000 Nature Conservancy Jan.–Feb. 27/1 The Horace C. Cabe Foundation awarded the chapter $56,500 to conserve Columbus Prairie, a high-quality blackland prairie.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	black land
释义	black landn. Brit. /ˈblak ˌland/, U.S. /ˈblæk ˌlænd/ Forms: see black adj. and n. and land n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., land n.¹ Etymology: < black adj. + land n.¹Attested earlier in place names, as Blakeland, Wiltshire (1195; now Blackland). 1. In singular and plural. Land or soil of a dark colour.Often with a connotation of richness or fertility; sometimes with a connotation of difficult working. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > dark soil black land1598 black soil1700 hen mould1712 mulatto land1741 mulatto soil1789 black cotton ground1804 mulatto loam1837 mulatto mould1838 black bottom1841 black turf1897 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies xxi. 347/1 Eastwarde it descendeth towardes a black lande, which seemeth to be a close and thick bushie place, lying full vnder 9. degrees, & ½. 1670 A. Martindale Let. 2 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 295 Our black-land (or Mosse-land) will give good oates barley and beanes especially the last. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 62 Gouty, moorish, peaty, cold, black Land. This sort of Land, in Staffordshire they order much the same with the heathy Land, only they burn it deeper. 1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 43 That they call White-land, appears of a much lighter Colour than their Black-land: Slides off the Plough-share with Ease;..whereas the Black-land..sticks to the Plough-Irons. 1804 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. IX. 140 On the low, or, what is commonly called, black land, the timber is chiefly white and Norway pine, spruce, and hemlock. 1877 S. B. J. Skertchly Geol. of Fenland 130 It is usual [in Lincolnshire] to speak of ‘moory land’, ‘black land’, or ‘fen’ where the soil is peaty. 1888 Science 18 May 241/2 The dark-tinted loam-deposits at present forming on the edge of that lake being already familiar, it was easy to recognize in the ‘black-lands’ belt..the earliest border of that basin. 1910 Sat. Evening Post 8 Oct. 10/3 John Simmons lived on a black-land farm in central Missouri. 1918 Times 20 Mar. 7/5 What are ordinarily the cheapest potatoes. i.e., those grown on the Black-lands in Cambridgeshire. 1922 C. E. Belknap Yesterdays of Grand Rapids 135 Ditches and drains have left but little evidence of this basin of water and rich black land. 1967 Times 16 Mar. 10/5 The great Fen plain is remarkable for..young cathedrals soaring above the black lands like mountains. 2006 R. Rees Anc. Egyptians (new ed.) 7/1 The level of the river fell. As it fell, a strip of rich, black land emerged along each of its banks. 2. U.S. A region of tall-grass prairie in Texas that is now regarded as a distinctive ecosystem. Frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1844 G. W. Featherstonhaugh Excursion through Slave States xxxii. 119/1 He believed..that the black land of which all these prairies [in the Mexican province of Texas] consisted, and which in a rainy time was so waxy that it was difficult to walk or stir in it, was about five miles in breadth. 1856 Galveston (Texas) Weekly News 9 Sept. 2/8 The greater part of the tract is the gradual transition from black sand to stiff black land, which is well known to be very fertile, and easily cultivated. 1893 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly July 93/1 The black land..is the most valuable in Texas, not excepting the famous Red River bottom lands. 1927 E. B. Reynolds & D. T. Killough Crop Rotation Blackland Region Central Texas 5 The Blackland region of central Texas has been noted for the productiveness, or fertility of its soils. 1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xxi. 269 The native hackberry of the Edwards Plateau and of the blackland prairies is the rough-leaved hackberry. 2000 Nature Conservancy Jan.–Feb. 27/1 The Horace C. Cabe Foundation awarded the chapter $56,500 to conserve Columbus Prairie, a high-quality blackland prairie. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1598
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