单词 | unland |
释义 | † unlandn. Obsolete. 1. False or illusory land. rare.In quot. with reference to the back of a sea monster mistaken for land by mariners. ΚΠ OE Whale 14 Wægliþende..gehydað heahstefn scipu to þam unlonde oncyrrapum, setlaþ sæmearas sundes æt ende. 2. In early use: land unfit for cultivation, wasteland. Later: spec. (Scottish) non-arable land. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land > unarable land unlandlOE lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xviii. 279 Hwæt rumedlices..hæfð se eower gilp þe ge þær bogiað on þam fiftan dæle healfum londes and unlondes, mid sæ, mid fænne, mid ealle, swa his [read hit is] generwed. 1543 Boyds of Penkill Family Papers 8 May in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Unland As thai ly in lenth and bried houses bigings tofts crofts corn land & unland with common pastour. 1573–4 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 577/2 Terras arabiles lie corneland, terras non arabiles lie unland. 1611 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 250/2 Cum..parca, pratis, wardis (lie unland seu tedderingis) et silvis apud idem. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online September 2021). † unlandv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To take away land from; to deprive of land. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > dispossess > of land disland1632 unlanda1661 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 51 But one Bishop..more unlanded Landaff in one, than all his Predecessors endowed it in four hundred years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.OEv.a1661 |
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