newtake

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noun

A piece of formerly wild land newly cultivated.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounnewtake (plural newtakes)

plural newtakes

  1. A piece of formerly wild land newly cultivated.

    Often the newtakes are the vital link between high farmland and high moorland and to the visitor and in law constitute potential 'open country'.

    1977, Dartmoor National Park Authority, Dartmoor National Park Plan (page 19)
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