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warpland

warpland noun: undulating land, built up by river alluvium, particularly in Britain.

Noun

warpland (countable and uncountable, plural warplands)

  1. Undulating land, built up by river alluvium, particularly in Britain.
    • […] two centuries ago. Moulde-warp is the Yorkshire name [for the mole], meaning the piler up of mould [earth]. The "warplands" of the coast recall the old verb.1907, Charles John Cornish, Animal Artisans, and Other Studies of Birds and Beasts, page 185
    • […] the warplands of the Trent and Humber, the heart of the Vale of Eve- sham and a few other areas.11 The Wirral peninsula is shown as good grassland. Historical Aspects Liverpool became a borough in 1207, when its burgesses were given[…]1959, Thomas Walter Freeman, The Conurbations of Great Britain, Manchester University Press, page 100

Examples of warpland in a sentence

  • […] the warplands and adjoining areas by NERC / CASE student J.1985, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Report:
  • […] the 'warplands' of the Humberhead Levels.2013 July 5, Ian D. Rotherham, Christine Handley, Mauro Agnoletti, Tomasz Samojlik, Trees Beyond the Wood (colour), Lulu.com, →ISBN, page...
  • [page 231:] [...] warpland the rotation was wheat and beans with an intermediate crop of beans, barley, oats, clover, flax, turnip seed, or onions.2013 November 5, Joan Thirsk, English Peasant Farming: The Agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to Recent Times, Routledge, →ISBN...
  • […] the warplands of the Trent was to sow oats and seeds (the oats serving merely as a nurse crop to the seeds) and to graze the land with sheep for two years.2013 November 5, Joan Thirsk, English Peasant Farming: The Agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to Recent Times, Routledge, →ISBN...

Forms of warpland

pluralwarplands

Origin of warpland

From warp + land.

Questions about warpland

What does warpland mean?
Warpland means undulating land, built up by river alluvium, particularly in Britain.
How do you use warpland in a sentence?
[…] the warplands and adjoining areas by NERC / CASE student J.
What part of speech is warpland?
Warpland is a noun.
What is the plural of warpland?
The plural of warpland is warplands.

Words near warpland in the dictionary

  1. warping hook
  2. warping hooks
  3. warping post
  4. warping posts
  5. warpings
  6. warpland
  7. warplands
  8. warplane
  9. warplanes
  10. warple
  11. warpless

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