Synonyms:
heath, heathland
Meaning: a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation
Synonyms:
heath
Meaning: a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers
Usage examples
"Hickney Heath Election.
"It is for you, electors of Hickney Heath, to judge me."
The mail picked us up about dusk at the Royal George on the heath.
JIM KELL, CHARLES HEATH, WILLIAM CARLISLE, CHARLES RINGGOLD, THOMAS MAXWELL, AND SAMUEL SMITH.
Charles Heath was twenty-five years of age, medium size, full black, a very keen-looking individual.
And who could tell but some of them might break from their covert and sweep like a shadow across the heath?
The wind blows across softly from the south shore, and brings with it scents of heath and thyme, caught from the high upland moors above the town.
She did not know that not a single evil creature dared set foot on that heath, or that, if one should do so, it would that instant wither up and cease.
About halfway across the heath there had been a wide dike recently cut, and the earth from the cutting was cast up roughly on the other side. Surely this would stop them!
It was a single bare little room, with a white deal table, and a few old wooden chairs, a fire of fir-wood on the hearth, the smoke of which smelt sweet, and a patch of thick-growing heath in one corner.