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Definition of Rimlands
1. rimland [n] - See also: rimland
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rimlands
Literary usage of Rimlands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... bordering the Tennessee River in its return across the State are the Highlands,
or rimlands, having an average elevation of 900 feet above the sea. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... State are the Highlands, or rimlands, having an average elevation of 900 feet
above the sea. For the most part this division is a flat plain furrowed by ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"We-st of the Cumber-land Table-land are the rimlands, or- Highlands, which have
an are-a of 9300 square miles and an aver-age elevation of near-ly 1000 feet ..."
4. The Men of the Mountains: The Story of the Southern Mountaineer and His Kin by Arthur W. Spaulding (1915)
"... "When I was school superintendent of Sumner County," he said, "we had a district
up on the rimlands where there had been no school for seven years. ..."
5. First and Second Reports of the Bureau of Agriculture for the State of by Tennessee Bureau of Agriculture, Joseph Buckner Killebrew (1874)
"Strictly these would embrace all the soils of the Highland Rim except the alluvium
on the rivers, but as a considerable portion of the rimlands is strongly ..."
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