The Collaborative International Dictionary
Land-poor
Land-poor \Land"-poor`\, a. Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
land-poor
a. (alternative form of land poor English)
Usage examples of "land-poor".
If she were, then Lovyan could ultimately arrange a marriage between her and one of her many land-poor relations.
Although his birth was noble enough, his family was land-poor and considered somewhat disreputable among the great clans.
The previous year, 1923, had been a disaster for dry-land farmers, for only six inches of rain had fallen, which meant that even the best fields produced only about two bushels of wheat an acre, not enough to pay for the plowing, and land-poor men like Earl Grebe now found they had barely enough money to pay their store bills.