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forbylands

forbylands is the plural of forbyland.

Meaning of forbyland

Noun

forbyland (plural forbylands)

  1. (Northern England, UK, dialectal) A tract of arable land lying outside a common field.

Questions about forbylands

What is forbylands the plural of?
Forbylands is the plural of forbyland.

Words near forbylands in the dictionary

  1. forbuying
  2. forbuys
  3. forby
  4. forbye
  5. forbyland
  6. forbylands
  7. Forbys
  8. forc'd
  9. forc't
  10. forcarve
  11. forcarved

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forbylands (page history and authors); forbyland (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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