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单词 lands end
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Land's endn.

Brit. /ˌlan(d)z ˈɛnd/, U.S. /ˌlæn(d)z ˈɛnd/
1. = land-end n. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land > headland
headOE
headlandOE
lea-riga1170
Land's endc1394
headrig1475
hade?1523
land-end1555
furlong1649
hade-way1649
head-ridge1659
sideland1763
headmark1820
turn-row1885
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 437 And at þe londes ende laye a litell crom-bolle.
15.. Wife of Auchtermuchty (Bannatyne MS.) 9 He lowsit the pluche at the landis end, And draif his oxin hame at evin.
1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) ii. ix. sig. Eviv Thou gossepst at home, to mete me at landis ende.
2. The extremity or furthest projecting point of a country. Now only as the proper name of the most westerly point of Great Britain.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > furthest or projecting point
Land's end14..
14.. in J. Gairdner Sailing Direct. (1889) 17 A newe cours and tide betwene Englonde and Irlonde and the Londis end.
14.. in J. Gairdner Sailing Direct. (1889) 18 The Londes end of Irlonde.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xi. 156 They passed on no further, neyther could they discover the lands end (which some holde to be there).
1793 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 190 We..were barely able to lay a course through the passage between those islands and the Land's End.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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