ˈmarch-land
[f. march n.3 + land n.1 (OE. had mearc-land in the same sense.)]
Land comprising the marches of a country; a border territory; border-land, frontier-land.
| 1536 St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 369 Litle ynough..for the surveiyng of the Kinges marche landes. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. §36. 552 Some march-lands betwixt two neighbour-Nations. 1869 Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xiii. 315 A warrior from the marchland of Tours and Blois. 1893 T. F. Tout Edward I, xi. 186 In the great marchland of Glamorgan one Morgan broke out in rebellion. |