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back-land, backland
[back a. 1.]
1. Sc. The back portion of a piece of ground; a building on this; spec. a house or tenement built behind others. (Cf. land n. 8.)
1488–1927 [see D.O.S.T. and Sc. Nat. Dict.].
2. = back country.
1681Penn Acc. Pennsylv. Wks. 1782 IV. 301 The back-lands being..richer, than those that lie by navigable rivers. 1783Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) I. 248 The back lands are as important in the eyes of some, as the fisheries. 1830W. S. Moorsom Lett. fr. Nova Scotia 130 A few families who occupy the back⁓lands of Great Tracadie. 1853in Fourteenth General Rep. Colonial Land & Emigration Commissioners (1854) 206 Roads leading to and from the river will be reserved for public use, and as a means of access to the back lands. 1901A. W. Jose Australasia vii. 110 The West Australians..began to explore more systematically their huge backlands. 1934S. Beckett More Pricks 26 Each time I see it [sc. Fingal] more as a back-land, a land of sanctuary.
3. Geogr. (See quot. 1956.)
1909H. B. C. Sollas tr. Suess's Face of Earth IV. xiv. 513 The backland is not the starting-point of an active fold-forming force. The Cambrian beds lie just as undisturbed in the backland of Angara as in the foreland of Laurentia. 1956Swayne Concise Gloss. Geogr. Terms 18 Backland, (a) the area between a natural levée and the base of a valley slope. (b) A region behind mountain ranges whether occupied by sea or land, e.g. the Pacific Ocean is described as a backland of the great fold mountains. |