Meanings of ploughland in English

Then the sun set over green fields and ploughland and the night came up.

This was done by ordering a carucage at the rate of three shillings on the ploughland.

A ploughland was as much land as one plough with oxen could plough in a year.

It was sloping upwards, that ploughland, and the horses were over their fetlocks in the red, soft soil.

The insects most injurious to the rural industry of the garden and the ploughland do not multiply in or near the woods.

There was green grass above it, and green grass below it; and green grass and patches of ploughland all over the downs.

The rich, damp earth of the plains beyond Robertville, with its rank grass, its moist ploughland and groves of eucalyptus, was already left behind.

They were random outposts, separated by leagues of pasture and ploughland, of the great mass, lying dark towards the south-west, of the Black Forest.

When one of his sons went to England, a special tribute was levied on every village and ploughland to bear the young gentleman's travelling expenses.

The land is three ploughlands.

This improvement is owing partly to the more thorough cultivation of the soil, partly to the groves which are interspersed among the ploughlands.

It seemed a country empty of man, though sometimes they came on derelict ploughlands and towns of crumbling brick charred and glazed by fire.