No Man's Land
a name applied to outlying districts in various countries, especially at one time to what now corresponds mainly to Griqualand East; also to a territory of 80,000 square miles in South Australia; to a strip ceded by Texas to the United States in 1850, for many years without any government, now constituting Beaver co., Okla.; to a small island 3 miles S. W. of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.; and to a strip of land bordering on Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, still in dispute. Used in the World War, 1914-1918, to describe the ground between the German and the Allies front lines.