Land on which wheat is grown or suitable for growing wheat on.
977. Charter of Oswald, in Kemble, Cod. Dipl., III. 159. Buton .lx. æcran ðæt hæft se arcebisceop ʓenumen into Cymesige to his hame him to hwæte-lande.
1573–80. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 128. Thry fallow once ended, go strike by and by, both wheat land and barlie.
1603. G. Owen, Pembrokeshire (1892), 59, marg. Wheate lande howe dressed.
1763. Mills, Pract. Husb., II. 12. He gave five plowings to a piece of wheat-land.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., I. 173. The same Power … That browns the wheat-lands in their summer-stain.
1916. Times, 27 Nov., 10/4. Many thousand acres of our richest wheatland is to-day totally uncultivated.
