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noun
Land that has been or is meant to be ploughed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Synonym of carucate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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Synonyms: carucate
Antonyms: none provided
noun
arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, tilled land, tillage, tilth
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: land, ground, soil
Narrower terms: fallow
History
From Middle English plowelond, plouȝ-lond, plow-land, equivalent to plough + land. Compare German Pflugland, Old Norse plógsland (“ploughland”).
Across languages
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