chalkland

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

chalk +‎ land

Noun[edit]

chalkland (countable and uncountable, plural chalklands)

  1. Land in which the underlying geology is chalk.
    • 2011, John Hare, A Prospering Society: Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages, page 70:
      Historians have frequently neglected the other demesne animals that were an important part of chalkland farming.