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ˈwheat-land
Land on which wheat is grown or suitable for growing wheat on.
977Charter of Oswald in Kemble Cod. Dipl. III. 159 Buton .lx. æcran ðæt hæft se arcebisceop ᵹenumen into Cymesige to his hame him to hwæte-lande. 1573–80Tusser Husb. (1878) 128 Thry fallow once ended, go strike by and by, Both wheat land and barlie. 1603G. Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 59 marg., Wheate lande howe dressed. 1763Mills Pract. Husb. II. 12 He gave five plowings to a piece of wheat-land. 1821Clare Vill. Minstrel I. 173 The same Power..That browns the wheat-lands in their summer-stain. 1916Times 27 Nov. 10/4 Many thousand acres of our richest wheatland is to-day totally uncultivated. |