Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops.
1
The value of plowland for farm purposes is established by what it will earn.
2
All about the field, like heaps of manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded to each couple of acres.
3
I prefer my bare plowlands and roots from the hedgerow, where I can live in safety, and without fear.
4
No flocks browse, no plowlands roll with wheat;
5
A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.