meadowedadj.
/ˈmɛdəʊd/, U.S. /ˈmɛdoʊd/ Provided with meadows (chiefly as the second element of a compound, as well-meadowed). Also: used as meadowland; used for growing grass, esp. for hay.
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a1650 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plantation (1899) 363 Some spetiall lands were granted at..a plase very weell meadowed, and fitt to keep & rear catle, good store.
1670 in Rec. Mass. Bay (1854) IV. ii. 461 Plantation..exceeding well meadowed.
1795 A. B. Cristall Poet. Sketches 62 Hail Devon!.. I'll stray thy meadow'd hills and plains along.
1800 in G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xv. 107 Tame and meadowed flats, here called dams, between Yarmouth and Norwich, producing turf, peat, furze, flag and sedge.
1831 J. Wilson Unimore ii. 177 That meadow'd plain as green as emerald.
1888 Harper's Mag. Apr. 735 The Gulf has eaten three miles into her meadowed land.
1908 Daily Chron. 19 Aug. 4/4 It was thither that we then resumed our way, speeding swiftly over an undulating, meadowed land.
1959 Jrnl. Ecol. 47 657 General retrogression is rare in the east coast marshes as a whole; it is confined to such ‘die-back’ areas, and to certain incompletely meadowed marshes where scour is sufficient to cause mechanical break-up.
1973 New Yorker 24 Dec. 54 The Matsumotos were looking at some land there on a meadowed hill one autumn day in 1966.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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