单词 | broad land |
释义 | † broad landn.1 Obsolete. A wide strip of ploughed land, typically one of a series within a field divided by water-furrows; cf. land n.1 7.See note in etymology on early place-name evidence. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land > divisions of ploughed land ridgeOE butt1304 landc1400 rig1428 sheth1431 shed1473 stitch1493 loon1611 furlong1660 size-land1744 slit1775 kench1799 stimpart1896 1399 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 195 Quatuor brode-londs. 1596 Articles of Agreement (modernized text) in W. Cunningham Common Rights at Cottenham & Stretham (1910) 200 Richard Scott, his Heirs and assigns, may..inclose and hold in severalty..one broad Land, lying in the Common field of the said town, called Farm Field. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 34 A good Mower will goe the breadth of thre [i.e. those] broade landes with a whette. 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Jan. x. 75 [In Middlesex] they plow two, three, or four of these Size-lands into one Broad-land. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < n.11399 |
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