单词 | white land |
释义 | white landn.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > fallow land faugha1325 lea-landc1325 crestc1440 white land1459 fallow1523 hade?1523 rest-field1578 brise1600 summertilth1622 ardera1642 naked fallow1684 soil bank1955 1459 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1909) V. 82 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 4600) XXV. 1 And qwasom of thir forsayd tenandis falt in othyr red land he sal er hym als mykyl quyt land. 1668 in M. B. Johnston Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court Deeds (1939) I. 226 Ane aicker off whitt land in ilke corne yeard of thrie yearly during the space underwryten to be choysed and divydit in manner underwritten. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 585 There is a stilt on top of the plough; and the man who holds it, walks on the white land at the side of it. 1841 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 247/1 The horses drawing it are all on the white land, and not treading in the subsoil in the furrow. 2. Land covered with thin chalky soil; cf. white soil n. (a) at white adj. and n. Compounds 1f. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > area subject to specific restrictions white land1677 zone1909 green belt1921 conservation area1925 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire iii. 240 If it be of that poorest sort they call white-land, nothing is so proper as ray-grass mixt with Non-such, or Melilot Trefoil. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 387 There is less danger of the thistles growing again by tillowing, in this thistling white land early than stiff clay. 1792 Lett. & Papers Agric. (Bath & West of Eng. Soc.) VI. 30 The beech will grow in white land, scarce worth 7s. per acre. 1879 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener & Home Farmer 27 Nov. 433/1 We often find that the soil on the hill farms which appears near the surface, and is called white land, is ploughed deeper to bring up chalk. 1907 1st Rep. Crown Lands Act 91 10 acres of ‘white land’ (chalk sub-soil). 3. Undeveloped land (which typically is uncoloured on planning maps), spec. that which is not designated for development, conservation, or change of use. ΚΠ 1944 Times 24 June 5 Land will be divided into three broad categories:—(a) Rural land which at March 31, 1939, possessed substantially no development value. This may be called ‘green’ land. (b) all other unbuilt-on land. This may be called ‘white’ land; (c) built-on land. 1960 Guardian 14 July 8/5 How much ‘white land’ the planning authorities have left between the limits of development shown on the town map and the beginning or inner edge of the green belt. 1971 P. Gresswell Environment 270 Open country and villages, both of which may be included in ‘white land’, have suffered. 1997 Built Environment 16 115/1 The adoption of the designation of ‘white land’ for areas of countryside where it was assumed that rural uses would maintain the landscape in an acceptable state. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1459 |
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