Deád-wille

According to the Old English Dictionary:

deád-wille

adj. Unproductive, barren:--Ðá beorgas tódǽlað ꝥ wæsmbǽre land and þæt deádwylle sand mons dividit inter vivam terram et arenas, Ors. 1, 1; S. 26, 19. Cf. cwic-wille. dead-wille