grounds

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. pl.

a region where hunting, trapping, and fishing is carried on.

Quotations

1913

"He stopped here on his way up, and said he was looking for better grounds."

1954

The grounds had been held by his family for many generations, long before the first whites came . . . .