Definition of "meadow-land" [meadow-land]

• Land used as a meadow; also, meadows collectively. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The place lies on the direct road from Lacedaemon to Olympia, about twenty furlongs from the temple of Zeus in Olympia, and within the sacred enclosure there is meadow-land and wood-covered hills, suited to the breeding of pigs and goats and cattle and horses, so that even the sumpter animals of the pilgrims passing to the feast fare sumptuously."
• "The exit from the plain and meadow-land round the lake was a narrow aperture through a close encircling range of hills."
• "He owned thirteen farms, an old abbey, whose windows and arches he had walled up for the sake of economy, — a measure which preserved them, — also a hundred and twenty-seven acres of meadow-land, where three thousand poplars, planted in 1793, grew and flourished; and finally, the house in which he lived."