Arable land.
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释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land (60) earthlandeOE Arable land. falloweOE A piece of ploughed land (often in plural); (as mass noun) ploughed land, arable land. Obsolete. acreOE A plot or piece of land, a field; spec. a piece of tilled or arable land. Now archaic and in proper names, as Long Acre. hide and gaine1347 hide and gaine. furrowc1380 poetic. Used loosely for arable land, a piece of ploughed land, the cornfields. teamlanda1387 a measure of area based on the amount of land which can be tilled by one plough in a year; cf. ploughland, n. 1. tilthc1460 Land under cultivation, as distinguished from pasture, forest, or waste land; tilled or arable land; a piece of tilled land, a ploughed field. arablec1475 Arable land. tilling land1488 attributive, as tilling land n. land fit for tilling, arable land. flat1513 Agriculture. A tract of arable land; a cornfield. Obsolete. plough-tilth1516 = ploughland, n. 1; cf. plough till n. ploughland1530 Arable land; a piece or plot of this. tillage1543 concrete. Tilled or ploughed land; land under crops as distinct from pasturage; the crops growing on tilled land. plough-ground1551 teamware1567 (a) a team of horses or other draught animals; cf. ploughware n. at plough, n.1 compounds 2; (b) = ploughland, n. (cf. teamland n.). ploughing ground1625 = ploughing land n. ploughing land1674 arable land; a piece of this. prairie-breaking1845 (a) adj.(of a plough) suitable for use in prairie-breaking; (b) n.heavy-duty ploughing of a kind requiring the use of a prairie breaker; †land… plough1859 Chiefly Hunting slang. Ploughed land; a ploughed field; = ploughland, n. 2. Subcategories:— capability of being ploughed (1) — state of being ploughed (1) — unarable land (1) — undivided arable (1) — portion for specific crop (1) — divisions of ploughed land (13) — border or boundary (furrow) (5) — headland (13) — land ploughed in spring (1) — land missed in ploughing (4) |
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