Meanings of benchland in English

They reached the level of the benchland to see disaster swooping down upon them like a race-horse.

We entered the Fifty-mile River; we were in a giant valley; tier after tier of benchland rose to sentinel mountains of austerest grandeur.

Sending Manuel in pursuit, and leaving Tomas at the camp, Crawford, Cress, and I ran for the break of benchland, to reach and aid Thornton.

Some day, it was predicted, the benchland would be cut into squares and farmed,-someday when the government brought to reality a long-talked-ofirrigation project.