1. (crow·n-la·nd.) Land belonging to the Crown, of which the revenue belongs to the reigning sovereign. Mostly in pl. crown-lands, the estates of the crown.
a. 1625. Cope, in Gutch, Coll. Cur., I. 122. Custody Lands, anciently termed the Crown Lands, answered in the Pipe.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. (1843), 2/2. Selling the crown-lands, creating peers for money.
1647. Crashaw, Steps to Temple, 82. Our crown-lands lie above.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer., VII. (1783), III. 171. By their stated labour the crown-lands were cultivated.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), II. App. 563. The estates of the dissolved houses had become crown-land.
2. (crow·nland = G. kronland.) The name of the great administrative provinces of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
