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norland1|ˈnɔːlənd|
Also Sc. 8–9 norlan', 9 norlin', norelin.
[Reduced form of northland.]
1. The north-country; the land in the north.
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 202 He was to ryde to the norland amangis his lordis. 1844Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile 1707 As the storm-wind blows bleakly from the norland. 1880Swinburne Songs of Four Seasons i, Our noisy norland.
b. attrib. Belonging to the north.
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 202 The norland lordis that fawored him. Ibid. 205 The norland men and wastland men. 1786Burns Earnest Cry xiv, Erskine, a spunkie norland billie. c1792― Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to Tammie, the Norland laddie. 1830Tennyson Oriana xi, When Norland winds pipe down the sea. 1864Daily Tel. 25 Oct., In these norland woods and groves.
2. A northerner; a north-country person, esp. one from the north of Scotland.
1771J. Macpherson Introd. Hist. Grt. Brit. & Irel. 129 The appellation of Southerons and Norlands are not hitherto totally extinguished among the Scots. 1798Crawford Poems 27 (E.D.D.), Kirsty was a Norlan' bred. 1817J. Gilchrist Intell. Patrimony 159 The journeyman carpenter..possessed all the quaint shrewdness which is among the Scotch implied in the word Norelin.
Hence ˈnorlander = prec. 2; ˈnorlandism, a characteristic of a northern dialect.
1716in Maidment Spottiswoode Misc. (1845) II. 449 They met with a bold Norlander of Aberdeenshire. c1795Scott in Child Ballads (1892) IV. 387 note, I recollect several of them as recited in the south of Scotland divested of their Norlandisms. |