field landn.

OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) i. 7 Cyrrað & farað to Amorrea dune & to oðrum feldlandum [L. campestria] & dunlandum.

OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) xi. 30 Se eardað on feldlandum [L. in campestribus] wið Galgalam & wið ða langan dene.

OE Charter: Bp. Oswald to Eadric (Sawyer 1310) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 88 Æt Fachanleage þone þriddan æcer feldlandes, & healfne þone wudu on easthealfe þæs weges.

OE Bounds (Sawyer 1596) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 397 On Wictune an feorða dæl wudulandes & feldlandes.

c1430 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 67/2 Al that..wonnis in felde land that may nocht eyr na mak tilth wyth oxin.

c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 121 (MED) The felde londe the which longeth to the same Mille.

1501 in J. A. Clyde Acta Dominorum Concilii (1943) 12 Four merkis worth of annuale of feild land liand in competent place.

1570 in W. Mackay & H. C. Boyd Rec. Inverness (1911) I. 183 His intres of fyve ruidis feyld land..bewest the watter of Ness.

1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver 88 By the same Method of Enclosing, held forth in this third generall, Piece of Improvement, touching Common Field-Lands, [etc.].

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ iv. 32 Champain or Field-land.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 234 Field Lands are not exempted from Milldews.

1710 London Gaz. No. 4674/7 65 Acres of Arable and Pasture inclosed, and 80 Acres of Field Land.

1787 Times 29 Oct. 4/3 The Estate consists of..160 Acres of Field Land, and Nine Acres, more or less, of Grass Ground, and Commons for 160 sheep.

1843 Jrnl. Stat. Soc. London 6 124 The common field land appears to have been unenclosed but cultivated.

1851 A. O. Hall Manhattaner 129 I have seen a million dollars worth of property..plantations; field lands; sugar-houses.

1896 N. Macleod Wallace iii. 50 Now see the gleaming silk and lances, above the moving dark array, That o'er yon fieldland swift advances.

1927 Daily Express 7 Mar. 1/2 Though armoured cars are still tied to roads, the introduction of the half-tracked and the six-wheel carriage will..enable them to move over normal field land.

1953 G. H. Kerr Ryukyu 10 Two small, clear-running springs supply water from under the hills to an area of level field land surrounded on three sides by steep, sheltering bluffs.

1974 Texas Monthly May 78/1 The total holding will..consist of at least a hundred acres of old established cedar..another hundred or less of field land, and the rest..in reasonably good range grasses.

2007 M. Kappas et al. Global Change Issues 97 Every pixel with a minimum of 5% herbaceous cover appears in the non-forest layer of the continuous field land cover.