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Definition of Queen's Chain in English: Queen's Chainnoun West Indian, NZ A strip of public-access land along coasts and waterways, of up to 20 metres wide. they reclaimed land from waters adjacent to the Queen's Chain Example sentencesExamples - McKenzie was also instrumental in the first full legislation of the Queen's Chain.
- I sit writing this in a country whose people enjoy open access to rivers and riverbanks. The arrangement is called the Queen's chain.
- Above the beach along the bay Lies a rolling, grass domain, Shaded by trees, twenty meters wide, Formed from the old Queen's chain.
- The result was the precious littoral strip New Zealanders call the Queen's Chain.
- The schedule refers to all that land consisting of the Queen's Chain lying between Saltibus Point to the South and Burgot Point to the North.
- A Land Act (1892) established the notion of the Queen's Chain - access for all to rivers, lakes, and coasts.
- The Department of Conservation raised the need for a marginal strip, or "Queen's Chain".
- Besides, I was on the Queen's Chain.
- They were the owners of the hinterland to the Queen's Chain.
- One merely had to find access to one of the many rivers, and then keep more or less within the Queen's chain.
Origin Late 19th century: from chain in the sense 'unit of length'. The strip of land was originally one chain (66 ft) wide. |