warpland

English

Etymology

From warp +‎ land.

Noun

warpland (countable and uncountable, plural warplands)

1. Undulating land, built up by river alluvium, particularly in Britain.
   • 1907, Charles John Cornish, Animal Artisans, and Other Studies of Birds and Beasts, page 185:

     […] 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.

   • 1959, Thomas Walter Freeman, The Conurbations of Great Britain, Manchester University Press, page 100:

     […] 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 […]

   • 1962 January 2, J. B. Mitchell, Great Britain: Geographical Essays, CUP Archive, →ISBN, page 394:

     […] The warplands, areas of tidal alluvium deposited naturally or artificially along the banks of the Ouse and Humber especially near Howden, are areas of rich cash-cropping, mainly potatoes, sugar-beet, peas and cereals. Horti […]

   • 1985, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Report:

     […] the warplands and adjoining areas by NERC / CASE student J. Atherton continued. Further sampling for study of the mineralogical, chemical, micromorphological and water holding properties of the soils was carried out in the autumn […]

   • 2012 December 2, J. A. R. Lockhart, A. J. L. Wiseman, Introduction to Crop Husbandry: Including Grassland, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 30:

     […] the warplands of the lower Trent and Humber; others are the brick- earths (wind-blown material) in North Kent, the Sussex coastal plain, south-east Essex, parts of Hertfordshire and the Mendip plateau. There are also the […]

   • 2013 July 5, Ian D. Rotherham, Christine Handley, Mauro Agnoletti, Tomasz Samojlik, Trees Beyond the Wood (colour), Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 149:

     […] the 'warplands' of the Humberhead Levels. Field. boundary. trees. as. economic. resources. in. the. past. It is often forgotten how important hedges were in the past, not only for separating one property from another or being stockproof […]

   • 2013 November 5, Joan Thirsk, English Peasant Farming: The Agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to Recent Times, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 231, 291:

     [page 231:] [...] warpland the rotation was wheat and beans with an intermediate crop of beans, barley, oats, clover, flax, turnip seed, or onions. The third-grade warpland was subject to an adapted four course, beginning with a fallow of part […]

   • 2013 November 5, Joan Thirsk, English Peasant Farming: The Agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to Recent Times, Routledge, →ISBN, page 291:

     […] 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. This gave time for the salt to drain off. Wheat followed- often for three or […]

   • 2014 November 19, Allen J. Scott, Solway Country: Land, Life and Livelihood in the Western Border Region of England and Scotland, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 17:

     […] the warplands on the seaward side for grazing purposes. These warplands are composed mainly of fine alluvium that was exposed as the sea level continued to fall in the post-glacial era. Where they are well drained, they support the […]

   • 2017 May 15, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Georgia A. Popoff, The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent, Haymarket Books, →ISBN:

     […] warpland, " the first of the suite, exemplifies that braid : And several strengths from drowsiness campaigned but spoke in Single Sermon on the warpland. And went about the warpland saying No. " My people, black and black, revile […]

   • 2020 June 23, Alexander Freed, Shadow Fall (Star Wars): An Alphabet Squadron Novel, Random House Worlds, →ISBN:

     […] the warplands of Fedalle. The decay of ages had occluded that window into the planet's ancient past, as had the anachronisms—the custodial droids and velvet ropes and explanatory plaques—but he'd perceived grandeur nonetheless […]