[? OE. ciric-land; cf. OS. ciricland, Ger. kirchenland.] In north dial. kirkland. Land belonging to a church, or the church.
c. 1205. Lay., 14855. Her ich bi-teche eou an hond al freo ælc chiric-lond.
1542. Richmond. Wills (1853), 33. My house … is cituate and lythe upon the kyrkland.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., 53. Ane fewer of Kirklands.
1732. Berkeley, Alciphr., V. § 31. As if you had never heard of church-lands and tithes!
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 84. Enabling the widow of the last surviving tenant to the church-lands in possession, to hold over the estate so long as she remained unmarried.
