单词 | ploughland |
释义 | ploughland/ˈplaʊland /(US plowland) noun [mass noun] 1Land that is ploughed for growing crops; arable land.The forest east of the Appalachians had largely gone, to be replaced by pasture and plowland, and had been severely reduced between the mountains and the Mississippi....
1.1 [count noun] A measure of land used in the northern and eastern counties of England after the Norman conquest, based on the area able to be ploughed in a year by a team of eight oxen.Now tractors, settled villages and efficient irrigation schemes fed from dams along the Sebou river have turned the area into permanent ploughland. |
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