ploughableplowableadj.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ai^v/1 Plowable, arabilis.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Arable, earable, ploughable, tillable.

1648 Good News from New Eng. 9 Boates may come up unto our doors, the Creeks convenient lye, Fish plenty taken in them are, plains plowable hard by.

1697 J. Donaldson Husbandry Anatomized (new ed.) ii. 20 I shall begin with Marish Ground, if it be ploughable.

1776 Farmer's Mag. May 60 When part of an arable field has been quarried, and the pit sloped so as to make it ploughable..the corn and clover will be..stronger upon this part than on the other part of the field.

1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 25 Light Soils are plowable at a small expence.

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 307 The haleware o't seemed to be gran plowable lan.

1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. xii. 178 There may be patches ploughable for rye.

1927 Econ. Geogr. 3 53/2 Of this farm land 46 per cent was crop land and plowable pasture.

1963 Times 20 May 16/4 The typically fairly flat and ploughable chalky clay with flints that covers much of the region.

2000 S. Connor Dumbstruck ii. 53 The importance of figures such as the Medusa, who are associated not with the open, ploughable earth, but with the hardness and impermeability of stone.