native heath

noun

native heath

noun

1

The place of one's birth or childhood. or by extension, place of origin.

But in the intervening period other classes of locomotives have been built for work in Scotland, or have been transferred from their native heath, and in each case have come to be regarded as part of the Scottish scene.1958 July 23, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, page 495:

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