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downs n pl Cp OED down sb1 2. Applied variously to stretches
of open, rolling country, elevated barrens or treeless marsh land; SAVANNA.
1842 JUKES ii, 220-1 He distinguished. . .'eminences of nearly
equal altitude ... at several parts of the range to which the local names of Bold Face,
Bread and Cheese, the Drop, the Flakey Downs, &c., have been attached.' 1901
Christmas Bells 13 During its height, the Mercade was driven on shore at
the back of the Downs. 1904 MURPHY (ed) 23 "Dear Old Ferryland": Oh! the Downs of dear
old Ferryland / How the pictures come and go. 1960 Nfld Qtly Summer, p. 17 In
Berry Season I did a lot of berry-picking and I remember once we all went on a glorious
picnic on to the Downs after bakeapples. 1963 Evening Telegram 17 Dec, p. 6 When I
was a young man I'd go deer-hunting 50 or 60 miles in the country, 'In on the Downs' we
used to say.
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