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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOOK'LAND
BOOK'LEARNED, a. [book and learn.] Versed in books; acquainted with books and literature; a term sometimes implying an ignorance of men, or of the common concerns of life.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. hist. an area of common land granted by charter to a private owner.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bookland Book"land`, Bockland Bock"land`, n. [AS. b?cland; b?c book + land land.] (O. Eng. Law) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.