Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

black land

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.02 in modern English

Syllables: black- -land
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To illegally trawl fish in excess of fishing quotas.

Etymology

Back-formation from black landing (“illegal fishing trawl in excess of fishing quotas”).

Inflected Forms

black lands (present, singular) black landing (participle, present) black landed (participle, past) black landed (past)

Questions

What does black land mean?: To illegally trawl fish in excess of fishing quotas.
Where does black land come from?: Back-formation from black landing (“illegal fishing trawl in excess of fishing quotas”).

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