backland

The conservancies are located in the "backland" or upper stream catchment areas and comprise water-retaining embankments and structures.

Water profile of Guyana 2008

To guarantee an S. R.O crowd for their execution, Duvalier ordered all businesses closed and schools let out; backland peasants were trucked into Port-au-Prince.

Ferentz LaFargue: Edwidge Danticat's Immigrant Artist at Work 2008

The backland hills lay studded with familiar compass-ring formations that marked a clansmen's camp; northwest held only darkness.

Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

Corlin stood at the edge of Seitforest and the backland domains of the north.

Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

From the toolshed on the knolly backland of his farm, Gareth Brewster could see across the dark lumpy hills to the town's business center.

In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

He could struggle into Vaanland, register claim to this parcel of backland, and-and nothing.

With Friends Like These Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

He could struggle into Vaanland, register claim to this parcel of backland, and-and nothing.

With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

He could struggle into Vaanland, register claim to this parcel of backland, and-and nothing.

With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

He sat looking out of the window, glumly taking in the commercial spires in the distance; his sallow, yearning spirit seemed to have come forth from some mute backland in which his efforts had a bitter, pioneer necessity.

Grub Street: New York Hardwick, Elizabeth 1963

But nothing could have exceeded the loneliness of that shore and backland, palpitating under the flogging of a tropical sun.

Moran of the Lady Letty Frank Norris 1886