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carrland

carrland noun: land marked by carrs; swampland.

Noun

carrland (plural carrlands)

  1. Land marked by carrs; swampland.
    • [see title]1950, Agnes Mary Conroy, The Agricultural Geography of Sandland and 'carrland' in the southern Vale of York
    • […] carrland on the regional boundary. The carrland is, properly speaking , an extension across administrative limits of country belonging to another region: it forms part of the rim of an area where post-glacial alluvium was first […]1963, George Harry Dury, The East Midlands and the Peak, page 72

Examples of carrland in a sentence

  • Away from the carrlands the alluvium is distinctly riverine, with vermiculitic or smectitic clay and a silt content of around 30 per cent.1984, Soil Survey Record of the Soil Survey of England and Wales, issues 81-85, page 16
  • Carrland comprises of pools or small ponds holding stands of willow and alder.2010, Keith Taylor, Exploring Nottinghamshire:

Forms of carrland

pluralcarrlands

Questions about carrland

What does carrland mean?
Carrland means land marked by carrs; swampland.
How do you use carrland in a sentence?
Away from the carrlands the alluvium is distinctly riverine, with vermiculitic or smectitic clay and a silt content of around 30 per cent.
What part of speech is carrland?
Carrland is a noun.
What is the plural of carrland?
The plural of carrland is carrlands.

Words near carrland in the dictionary

  1. Carrizo
  2. Carrizo Springs
  3. Carrizosa
  4. Carrizosas
  5. Carrizozo
  6. carrland
  7. carrlands
  8. carrocci
  9. carroccio
  10. carroccios
  11. carroch

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