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benchland†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
level stretches of land forming benches.
See: bench
Quotations
1900
Meanwhile, however, the auriferous bars and bench-lands in the neighborhood of Hope and Yale on the Lower Fraser were already being worked.
1963
When Scott died in 1878 and was buried on those same fertile benchlands, he had succeeded in growing tremendous crops of tobacco of very high quality.