alijarar

An old agricultural and legal term meaning to divide and distribute uncultivated common land among settlers or farmers so it can be worked — a word that belongs to historical land-grant documents and regional archives, not modern speech.

• El concejo alijaró las tierras baldías entre los vecinos del pueblo. — The council parceled out the uncultivated land among the villagers.
• El documento antiguo describe cómo se alijararon esos terrenos comunales. — The old document describes how that common land was parceled out.
• Pocas palabras tan específicas como alijarar sobreviven fuera de los archivos. — Few words as specific as alijarar survive outside the archives.

This verb is obscure enough that a learner's only real risk is confusing it with alijar (to unload cargo/smuggle) — the two look similar but describe entirely unrelated activities.

Often confused with alijar.