Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops.
1 Then the sun set over green fields and ploughland and the night came up.
2 This was done by ordering a carucage at the rate of three shillings on the ploughland .
3 A ploughland was as much land as one plough with oxen could plough in a year.
4 It was sloping upwards, that ploughland , and the horses were over their fetlocks in the red, soft soil.
5 The insects most injurious to the rural industry of the garden and the ploughland do not multiply in or near the woods.
6 There was green grass above it, and green grass below it; and green grass and patches of ploughland all over the downs.
7 The rich, damp earth of the plains beyond Robertville, with its rank grass, its moist ploughland and groves of eucalyptus, was already left behind.
8 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.
9 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.
10 The land is three ploughlands .
11 This improvement is owing partly to the more thorough cultivation of the soil, partly to the groves which are interspersed among the ploughlands .
12 It seemed a country empty of man, though sometimes they came on derelict ploughlands and towns of crumbling brick charred and glazed by fire.
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Translations for ploughland