单词 | crownland |
释义 | crown-land, ˈcrownland 1. (ˈcrown ˈland.) Land belonging to the Crown, of which the revenue belongs to the reigning sovereign. Mostly in pl. crown-lands, the estates of the crown.
a1625Cope in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 122 Custody Lands, anciently termed the Crown Lands, answered in the Pipe. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. (1843) 2/2 Selling the crown-lands, creating peers for money. 1647Crashaw Steps to Temple 82 Our crown-lands lie above. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. vii. (1783) III. 171 By their stated labour the crown-lands were cultivated. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. App. 563 The estates of the dissolved houses had become crown-land. 2. (ˈcrownland = G. kronland.) The name of the great administrative provinces of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Hist. |

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