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单词 Queen's Chain
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Definition of Queen's Chain in English:

Queen's Chain

noun
West Indian, NZ
  • A strip of public-access land along coasts and waterways, of up to 20 metres wide.

    they reclaimed land from waters adjacent to the Queen's Chain
    Example sentencesExamples
    • McKenzie was also instrumental in the first full legislation of the Queen's Chain.
    • I sit writing this in a country whose people enjoy open access to rivers and riverbanks. The arrangement is called the Queen's chain.
    • Above the beach along the bay Lies a rolling, grass domain, Shaded by trees, twenty meters wide, Formed from the old Queen's chain.
    • The result was the precious littoral strip New Zealanders call the Queen's Chain.
    • The schedule refers to all that land consisting of the Queen's Chain lying between Saltibus Point to the South and Burgot Point to the North.
    • A Land Act (1892) established the notion of the Queen's Chain - access for all to rivers, lakes, and coasts.
    • The Department of Conservation raised the need for a marginal strip, or "Queen's Chain".
    • Besides, I was on the Queen's Chain.
    • They were the owners of the hinterland to the Queen's Chain.
    • One merely had to find access to one of the many rivers, and then keep more or less within the Queen's chain.

Origin

Late 19th century: from chain in the sense 'unit of length'. The strip of land was originally one chain (66 ft) wide.

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