border-land

== English == === Noun === border-land (plural border-lands) Archaic spelling of borderland. 1850, Charlotte Brontë, letter dated 16 March, 1850, in The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter , p. ,[1] some of the ancient East Lancashire families, whose mansions lie on the hilly border-land between the two counties