Definition of Backlands

1. Noun. (plural of backland) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backlands

1. backland [n] - See also: backland

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backlands

backheels
backhoe
backhoed
backhoeing
backhoes
backhouse
backhouses
backing
backing band
backing up
backings
backjoint
backjoints
backjumping
backland
backlands (current term)
backlash
backlashed
backlasher
backlashers
backlashes
backlashing
backless
backlift
backlifts
backlight
backlighted
backlighting
backlights
backline

Literary usage of Backlands

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Brazil by Errol Lincoln Uys (2000)
""Honorio, we abandoned them in these backlands. Church, empire, state, the authorities at the coast ... "You don't know these backlands," Celso said flatly. ..."

2. History of the Society of Jesus in North America, Colonial and Federal. by Thomas Hughes (1917)
"... fifteen leagues from the island Pecot, for 800 families. What Laval said of the backlands in New Netherland seems to designate the ..."

3. The Realities of Images: imperial Brazil and the Great Drought by Gerald Michael Greenfield (2001)
"Large-scale migrations from the backlands began as sertanejos sought areas where water and food were available. Soon, thousands of these retirantes lined ..."

4. Report of the Case of the Queen V. Edward John Eyre: On His Prosecution, in by William Francis Finlason, Baron Colin Blackburn Blackburn, Edward John Eyre (1868)
"... to go to Morant Bay to seek about the backlands, and if we don't get the backlands all the buckra (ie, the whites) they will be die (ie, all be killed). ..."

5. Brazil by Anton Jakob, Fernanda Cordoeiro, Claus Jäke (2000)
"As a reporter. he accompanied the army to Canudos. a village in the backlands of Bahia state. where the messianic Antonio Consel- heiro and his followers ..."

6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"... though the two are frequently connected—of the ground seized by the great pioneers in Africa, in the backlands of North America, and elsewhere. ..."

7. The Bookman (1898)
"... when the old woman set up a cry for an oe that had been forgot in the confusion, and was now, likely, crying in the solitude of the backlands. ..."

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