wasteground

noun

wasteground

noun

Etymology From waste + ground.

1

A barren stretch of ground; wasteland.

But the wasteground was already cleared. So the workers resolved to give up a Monday to voluntary labour to scatter rubbish all over it.1979, Aleksandr Zinoviev, The Yawning Heights:
He was crawling across the wasteground on the far side of the perimeter fence.1994, D W Hartnett, Black Milk:

1 more example

The uniform was leading them across the wasteground, where one side of a great black square of tenements had been demolished.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 18:

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