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n. - Arable dirt that is worked by digging and sowing and raising crops.

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  • Also, this is a busy season in the forest as well as the plowland.
  • He came with Hanno and a small military escort out of the hills, onto a rolling plain where, here and there, wilderness yielded to plowland and pasture.
  • It is guesswork what sites to seek-in a city turned alien, in a remnant of countryside where grass and wild-flowers have taken back the plowland-and stand for a while,...
  • The value of plowland for farm purposes is established by what it will earn.
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