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pine land U.S.
[pine n.2 7.]
Land on which pine trees are the characteristic growth. Also attrib. Hence ˈpine-lander, one who lives on and derives a living from such land.
c1658[see oak land]. 1665–70Early Rec. Lancaster, Mass. (1884) 271 There is another piece of upland..Sum part pine Land & partly oak Land. 1735Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1842) II. 45 We encamped there, and found..the pine land very valuable. 1765J. Bartram Jrnl. 26 Dec. in W. Stork Acc. E. Florida (1766) 8 We encamped on a bluff in the pine-land. 1789J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 446 They are often to be found in pine lands in the southern states. 1838C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron xxiii. 157 There is something picturesque in the evening hour at a pine-land village. 1839F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Residence Georgian Plantation (1863) 75 He gave me a..description of the Yeomanry of Georgia, more properly termed pine⁓landers. 1890Harper's Mag. Apr. 790/1 Quaint and indolent pine-landers and degraded swamp-dwellers, have all supplied our literary comedians with unique characters. 1903‘P. Pennington’ Woman Rice Planter (1913) i. 53 Drove S― to church in our little pine-land village; she seemed to enjoy the very simple service. 1922H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders (new ed.) 433 These freedman were pushed further and further back upon more and more sterile soil They became ‘pine⁓landers’ or ‘piney-woods-people’..or ‘crackers’. 1948Sat. Even. Post 4 Sept. 30/1 There was a stillness here in the flat lonesome pinelands. 1977D. Clark Gimmel Flask v. 95 A..voice broke into song. ‘Tina, soon the leaves will be falling, From the pine-lands I'm calling, Won't you come back to me-e?’ |