layland

See also: Layland

English

Etymology

From lay (“meadow”) +‎ land.

Noun

layland

1. (archaic) Land lying untilled; fallow ground.

   Hypernyms: farmland, < land, ground

   Hyponyms: winter fallow, summer fallow

   • 1630, John Stanbridge, Stambrigi Embryon Relimatvm:

     places where rubbiſh lies, layland or ground, new broke up

Derived terms

• Leyland, Layland

 

Related terms

• lay system

 

See also

• headland

 

References

• “layland”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.