Definition of "common land" [common land]

• An area of land in the United Kingdom or Ireland that is open to the public at all times and until the 18th century would have been land that was free for anybody to graze their animals on (often shortened to common). (noun)
• Collectively, all the common land in one of those two countries. (noun)

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• "Audley smiled, thinking of poor Gerard Winstanley and his ragged band of Diggers, who had once tried to cultivate a tiny corner of common land in Christian brotherhood and humility."
• "Colvay, v. 309, n. l; common land in Rasay, v. 171; computation of distances, v. 183; cordiality increased by Boswell's drinking, iii."
• "The manor of Harpecote lay in open plain, with a small coppiced woodland on the windward side, and a low ridge of common land to the south."