[f. LING sb.2 + -Y1.] Abounding in or covered with ling or heather.

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1649.  Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), 133. A Lingy Heath or Common.

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1708.  T. Ward, Eng. Ref., IV. (1710), 103, margin. His Cell was upon a Lingy Moor, about two miles from Mulgrave Castle.

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1845.  Watson, in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VI. I. 79. Heath land, or, what is generally termed in the North of England ‘lingy land.’

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1884.  Kendal Mercury & Times, 26 Sept., 2/6. Three beautiful meadow fields, which were a great contrast to the surrounding lingy land.

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