Definition of "no man's land" [no man's land]

• Land under dispute by two opposing parties, especially the field of battle between the lines of two opposing entrenched armies. (noun)
• An area of uncertainty or ambiguity. (noun)
• An unclaimed or unowned piece of land. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Bobo led them down forty-odd decks, well into no man's land inhabited neither by mutie nor crew, stopped."
• "Hugh saw to it that they put thirty-odd more decks below them and were well into no man's land before he let vigilance relax at all."
• "In the huge no man's land of White Russia, which had a week, some parts only a few days, of grace before falling to the enemy, those fittest to command survived."