land : Idioms & Phrases

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adelie land

  • noun a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia; noted for its large colonies of penguins
    Adelie Coast; Terre Adelie.
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aircraft landing

  • noun landing an aircraft
    aircraft landing.
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airplane landing

  • noun landing an aircraft
    aircraft landing.
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amphibious landing

  • noun a military action of coordinated land, sea, and air forces organized for an invasion
    • MacArthur staged a massive amphibious landing behind enemy lines
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Assart land

  • forest land cleared of woods and brush.
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bad lands

  • noun an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska
    Badlands.
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Bad" lands"
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  1. Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).
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battle of pittsburgh landing

  • noun the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory
    battle of Shiloh; Shiloh.
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belly-land

  • verb land on the underside without the landing gear
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blind landing

  • noun using only instruments for flying an aircraft because you cannot see through clouds or mists etc.
    blind flying.
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Border land

  • land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; often used figuratively; as, the border land of science.
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Bottom land

  • . See 1st Bottom, n., 7.
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Charter land

  • (O. Eng. Law), land held by charter, or in socage; bookland.
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cloud-cuckoo-land

  • noun an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
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coats land

  • noun a region of western Antarctica along the southeastern shore of the Weddell Sea
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common land

  • noun a pasture subject to common use
    commons.
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Court lands

  • (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, that is, for the use of the lord and his family.
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crash land

  • verb make an emergency landing
    crash land.
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crash landing

  • noun an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft)
  • verb make an emergency landing
    crash land.
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Crown land

  • noun land that belongs to the Crown
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  • land belonging to the crown, that is, to the sovereign.
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cultivated land

  • noun arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
    cultivated land; farmland; ploughland; tilth; plowland; tillage.
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din land

  • noun United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
    Land; Din Land.
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diversionary landing

  • noun an amphibious diversionary attack
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dry land

  • noun the solid part of the earth's surface
    land; terra firma; earth; solid ground; ground.
    • the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land
    • the earth shook for several minutes
    • he dropped the logs on the ground
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edwin herbert land

  • noun United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
    Land; Din Land.
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emergency landing

  • noun an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control
    emergency landing.
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enderby land

  • noun a region of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Wilkes Land; claimed by Australia
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Fen land

  • swamp land.
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Fine of lands

  • a species of conveyance in the form of a fictitious suit compromised or terminated by the acknowledgment of the previous owner that such land was the right of the other party. Burrill. See Concord, n., 4.
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force-land

  • verb make a forced landing
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forced landing

  • noun an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control
    emergency landing.
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Foster land

  • . (a) Land allotted for the maintenance of any one. Obs. (b) One's adopted country.
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Grass land

  • land kept in grass and not tilled.
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grazing land

  • noun a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
    pasture; pastureland; ley; lea.
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holy land

  • noun an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
    Palestine; Canaan; Holy Land.
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instrument landing

  • noun an aircraft landing made entirely by means of instruments
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Land agent

  • noun a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land
    real estate agent; house agent; estate agent; real estate broker.
    • in England they call a real estate agent a land agent
  • noun a person who administers a landed estate
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  • a person employed to sell or let land, to collect rents, and to attend to other money matters connected with land.
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land area

  • noun an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming)
    acreage.
    • he wanted some acreage to build on
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  • a peculiar atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions. See Ice blink.
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Land boat

  • a vehicle on wheels propelled by sails.
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Land breeze

  • . See under Breeze.
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Land chain

  • . See Gunter's chain.
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Land crab

  • (Zoöl.), any one of various species of crabs which live much on the land, and resort to the water chiefly for the purpose of breeding. They are abundant in the West Indies and South America. Some of them grow to a large size.
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land cress

  • noun of southwestern Europe; cultivated in Florida
    American watercress; Barbarea verna; early winter cress; American cress; Belle Isle cress; Barbarea praecox.
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land development

  • noun making an area of land more useful
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Land fish

  • a fish on land; a person quite out of place. Shak.
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Land force

  • a military force serving on land, as distinguished from a naval force.
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land grant

  • noun a grant of public land (as to a railway or college)
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Land ice

  • a field of ice adhering to the coast, in distinction from a floe.
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Land leech

  • (Zoöl.), any one of several species of blood-sucking leeches, which, in moist, tropical regions, live on land, and are often troublesome to man and beast.
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land line

  • noun a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits
    landline.
    • a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave
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land mass

  • noun a large continuous extent of land
    landmass.
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Land measure

  • the system of measurement used in determining the area of land; also, a table of areas used in such measurement.
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land mile

  • noun a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
    mi; stat mi; statute mile; mile; international mile.
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land mine

  • noun an explosive mine hidden underground; explodes when stepped on or driven over
    booby trap; ground-emplaced mine.
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Land o' cakes

  • Scotland.
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land of enchantment

  • noun a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border
    NM; New Mexico.
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land of lincoln

  • noun a midwestern state in north-central United States
    Prairie State; IL; Illinois.
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Land of Nod

  • sleep.
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land of opportunity

  • noun a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
    AR; Arkansas.
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Land of promise

  • in Bible history, Canaan: by extension, a better country or condition of which one has expectation.
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Land of steady habits

  • a nickname sometimes given to the State of Connecticut.
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Land office

  • noun a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted
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  • a government office in which the entries upon, and sales of, public land are registered, and other business respecting the public lands is transacted. U.S.
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Land pike

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The gray pike, or sauger. (b) The Menobranchus.
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Land rail

  • noun common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields
    Crex crex; corncrake.
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  • . (Zoöl) (a) The crake or corncrake of Europe . See Crake. (b) An Australian rail (Hypotænidia Phillipensis); called also pectoral rail.
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land reform

  • noun a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action)
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land resources

  • noun natural resources in the form of arable land
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Land scrip

  • a certificate that the purchase money for a certain portion of the public land has been paid to the officer entitled to receive it. U.S.
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Land service

  • military service as distinguished from naval service.
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Land shark

  • a swindler of sailors on shore. Sailors' Cant
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Land side

  • (a) That side of anything in or on the sea, as of an island or ship, which is turned toward the land . (b) The side of a plow which is opposite to the moldboard and which presses against the unplowed land.
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land site

  • noun the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
    site.
    • a good site for the school
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Land snail

  • (Zoöl.), any snail which lives on land, as distinguished from the aquatic snails are Pulmonifera, and belong to the Geophila; but the operculated land snails of warm countries are Dioecia, and belong to the Tænioglossa. See Geophila, and Helix.
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Land spout

  • a descent of cloud and water in a conical form during the occurrence of a tornado and heavy rainfall on land.
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Land steward

  • a person who acts for another in the management of land, collection of rents, etc.
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land tax

  • noun a capital tax on property imposed by municipalities; based on the estimated value of the property
    property tax.
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land tenure

  • noun the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands
    tenure.
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Land tortoise, Land turtle

  • (Zoöl.), any tortoise that habitually lives on dry land, as the box tortoise. See Tortoise.
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land up

  • verb block with earth, as after a landslide
    earth up.
  • verb finally be or do something
    finish; wind up; fetch up; end up; finish up.
    • He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart
    • he wound up being unemployed and living at home again
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Land warrant

  • a certificate from the Land Office, authorizing a person to assume ownership of a public land. U.S.
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Land wind

  • Same as Land breeze (above).
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Land, ∨ House, of bondage

  • in Bible history, Egypt; by extension, a place or condition of special oppression.
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Land, ho!

  • (Naut.), a sailor's cry in announcing sight of land.
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land-office business

  • noun very large and profitable volume of commercial activity
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land-poor

Land"-poor` adjective
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  1. Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. Colloq.
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landed estate

  • noun extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
    land; demesne; estate; acres.
    • the family owned a large estate on Long Island
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landed gentry

  • noun the gentry who own land (considered as a class)
    squirearchy.
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landing approach

  • noun the approach to a landing field by an airplane
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landing craft

  • noun naval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipment
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landing deck

  • noun the upper deck of an aircraft carrier; used as a runway
    flight deck.
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landing field

  • noun a place where planes take off and land
    airfield; flying field; field.
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landing flap

  • noun a flap on the underside of the wing that is lowered to slow the plane for landing
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landing gear

  • noun an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground
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landing net

  • noun a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water
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landing party

  • noun a part of a ship's company organized for special duties ashore
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landing place

  • noun structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
    landing.
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landing skid

  • noun one of two parts of the landing gear of a helicopter
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landing stage

  • noun platform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded
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landing strip

  • noun an airfield without normal airport facilities
    flight strip; airstrip; strip.
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Law of the land

  • noun a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law); today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process
    • the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land'
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  • due process of law; the general law of the land.
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Life land

  • (Law), land held by lease for the term of a life or lives.
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lotus land

  • noun an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence
    lotusland.
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Moss land

  • land produced accumulation of aquatic plants, forming peat bogs of more or less consistency, as the water is grained off or retained in its pores.
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native land

  • noun the country where you were born
    motherland; country of origin; mother country; fatherland; homeland.
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never-never land

  • noun a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination
    dreamland; dreamworld.
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New land

  • land ckeared and cultivated for the first time.
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no man's land

  • noun an unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies
  • noun land that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable)
  • noun the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both)
    twilight zone.
    • but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal
    • in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity
    • in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression
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no-man's land

No"-man's` land`
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  1. (Naut.) A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for.
  2. Fig.: An unclaimed space or time.
    That no-man's land of twilight. W. Black.
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parcel of land

  • noun an extended area of land
    piece of ground; parcel of land; parcel; tract.
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piece of land

  • noun an extended area of land
    piece of ground; parcel of land; parcel; tract.
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plot of land

  • noun a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
    plot; patch; plot of ground.
    • a bean plot
    • a cabbage patch
    • a briar patch
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polaroid land camera

  • noun a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds
    Polaroid camera.
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Promised land

  • noun an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
    Palestine; Canaan; Holy Land.
  • noun any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
    heaven; Eden; nirvana; Shangri-la; paradise.
  • noun the goal towards which Christians strive
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  • . See Land of promise, under Land.
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queen maud land

  • noun a region of Antarctica between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea; claimed by Norway
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table-land

Ta"ble-land` noun
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  1. A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.
    The toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining table-lands To which our God himself is moon and sun. Tennyson.
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The land league

  • an association, organized in Dublin in 1879, to promote the interests of the Irish tenantry, its avowed objects being to secure fixity of tenure fair rent, and free sale of the tenants' interest. It was declared illegal by Parliament, but vigorous prosecutions have failed to suppress it.
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The land of Nod

  • sleep.
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three-point landing

  • noun a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time
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tilled land

  • noun arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
    cultivated land; farmland; ploughland; tilth; plowland; tillage.
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To abate into a freehold, To abate in lands

  • (Law), to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.
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To clear the land

  • (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land.
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To close with the land

  • (Naut.), to approach the land.
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To give (the land or any object) a wide berth

  • to keep at a distance from it.
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To keep the land aboard

  • to hug the shore.
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To lay the land

  • (Naut.), to cause it to disappear below the horizon, by sailing away from it.
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To make land

  • (Naut.), to sight land.
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To rib land

  • to leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in plowing.
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To set the land

  • to see by the compass how the land bears from the ship.
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To settle the land

  • (Naut.), to cause it to sink, or appear lower, by receding from it.
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To shut in the land

  • to hide the land, as when fog, or an intervening island, obstructs the view.
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victoria land

  • noun a mountainous area of Antarctica bounded by the Ross Sea and Wilkes Land
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White land

  • a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry, but blackish after rain. Eng.
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Wild land

  • . (a) Land not cultivated, or in a state that renders it unfit for cultivation. (b) Land which is not settled and cultivated.
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wilkes land

  • noun a coastal region of Antarctica on the Indian Ocean to the south of Australia; most of the territory is claimed by Australia
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Worn land

  • land that has become exhausted by tillage, or which for any reason has lost its fertility.
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Yard of land

  • . See Yardland.
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