newtake

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newtake (plural newtakes)

  1. A piece of formerly wild land newly cultivated.
    • 1977, Dartmoor National Park Authority, Dartmoor National Park Plan (page 19)
      Often the newtakes are the vital link between high farmland and high moorland and to the visitor and in law constitute potential 'open country'.