ploughland


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Synonyms for ploughland

arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

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Nature and human experience--agreeing, opposing, or disjoined: Millay broached this question in "Elegy Before Death," where rhododendron, tamarack, pigweed, and ploughland will still be there when you're gone.
It existed in a limbo between ploughland and second-growth thicket.
Glaukos, why is it you and I are honored before others / with pride of place, the choice meats and the filled wine cups / in Lykia, and all men look on us as if we are immortals, / and we are appointed a great piece of land by the banks of Xanthos, / good land, orchard and vineyard, and ploughland for the planting of wheat?
as they toil down the furrow till the share cuts the edge of the ploughland;
In addition to ploughland and value, they carefully record the number of manors held by each baron, both in demesne and by his men.
pnn.police.uk, phone 01924 294000 or write to the Independent Custody Visiting Scheme Administrator, West Yorkshire Police Authority, Ploughland House, 62 George Street, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 1DL.
Mother they write poems O Mother, how much most alien of ploughland bears your fruit!
If you are over 21, live or work within West Yorkshire, apply by contacting Catherine Archer, Executive Director, West Yorkshire Police Authority, Ploughland House, 62, George Street, Wakefield, WF1 1DL.
In 15th-century documents, however, both manors/enfiefments (some of them very small though, consisting of even less than one ploughland) and villages are mentioned.
Heifers: British Blue PS490, PS470 (x2), PS450 (x4) PS435, PS405 PS365 Smalmstown Farm, PS390, PS350 Trailflat Farm, PS385 Groundy Croft PS370 PS350 High Ploughlands, Charolais PS285, PS275 (x2) Barsalloch Farm, Simmental PS460 PS285 Morley Hill Farm, PS295 Merry Shields, Limousin PS415 (x2) PS400, PS350, PS320 The Close, PS305 PS280 Bleaberry Rigg, PS305 (x2) Cushathill PS300 Halmyre Farm, PS290 PS278, PS270 Barsalloch Farm, PS285 Hazel Head, PS270 Low Rigg, Blonde PS320 Skiddaw View Cottage, Aberdeen Angus PS310 PS245 Askham Bryne College, PS295 High Plains, PS290 Marks Farm, PS270, PS265, PS255 Greenmoorside PS245 High Pow, Galloway PS285 (x2) Carsewalloch Farm, Hereford PS260 Smalmstown Farm PS260 (x2) Barsalloch Farm.
After lunch I rode the black pony for one and a half hours, out beyond Warlus, over the ploughlands and hills and made hunting noises and was quite happy with the corky little animal under me going so nicely.
It reminds me of the many pictures I have seen of Russian tractors on Zambian ploughlands, or locomotive units derailed and left to rot, on Tanzanian railway lines.
demesne ploughlands, the roles of a meadow, pasture and copse, and the rough logistics of the manor's operation.
War was profitable where there were towns, villages and farms: where there was a large productive peasantry the fruits of whose labour could be plundered in war and taxed in peace But beyond the ploughlands and pastures already conquered by the empire, there now lay a wilderness.