(In Devonshire 1 ploughland was equivalent to 4 ferlings.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

Chase Farm unless there was a bit more ploughland laid to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Bede] Reference

They are now running over the same ploughland and have to watch their step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuka Pilot]

'It is ploughland (?) there shall be,' said Medb; 'we will cut down the wood.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Táin Bó Cúalnge. English] Reference

I never remember him but from when I was a child shooing the birds off the ploughland.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Excellent Mystery]

From halves the guns were whole again, and wheeled away over ploughland to the railway.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference

There was a thriving mill, and the fields of the demesne were wide and green, the ploughland well tended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Thief]

There being little ploughland, and few woods, the Vale is only an average sporting country, except for hunting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown's Schooldays]

The rich dark ploughland was beginning to show the first faint green shadow of growth, elusive and fragile as a veil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potter's Field]

Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Farm]

The trees fell back as he approached the village, and left open to the sun a pleasant bowl of green meadows and striped ploughland, compact and well cared for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leper of Saint Giles]

Breadths of new-turn'd ploughland under them glowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgian Poetry 1920-22] Reference

I kin stan 'de chilly springtime in de ploughland, but dat's all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar] Reference

The ploughland is Lord Onslow's, and it must need a Minister of Agriculture to look after it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference

The ploughland was in splendid condition; in a couple of days it would be fit for harrowing and sowing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

Carlisle, had from its foundation been endowed with a thrave of corn from every ploughland in Cumberland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Family] Reference

Between the two Clandons, West and East, the road runs by what is surely the finest ploughland in the county.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference

There was green grass above it, and green grass below it; and green grass and patches of ploughland all over the downs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from France] Reference

The insects most injurious to the rural industry of the garden and the ploughland do not multiply in or near the woods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

After this spirited opening he consulted a sheaf of notes, and was straightway mired in a ploughland of tramway finance and sticky statistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foe-Farrell] Reference

It was a quiet, lonely, prosperous ploughland, stretching for miles, up and down, in great sweeping rolls and folds, like our own chalk downlands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Front Line] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1] Reference

Attached to this central manse was a considerable amount of land -- ploughland, meadows, vineyards, orchards, and almost all the woods or forests on the estate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval People] Reference

Over the ploughland riding was utterly impossible; the horse could only keep a foothold where there was ice, and in the thawing furrows he sank deep in at each step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

They clear woods, they turn deserts into ploughland, they study — with good or bad conscience — the lays of heathen poets and the writings of historians or philosophers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine] Reference

1 ploughland = as much land as 8 oxen could cultivate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

4 pence for every ploughland granted to the Queen; an act suspending Poyning's act for the continuance of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2] Reference

There was no ploughland at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference

Like the ploughland crumbling red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

The roads lay as the ploughland rude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Poems] Reference

The ploughland will be bogland certainly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right Royal] Reference

Gleam in the sun; and all the ploughland shone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right Royal] Reference

Across the wet ploughland he took a good pull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right Royal] Reference

Of green, to where the stormy ploughland, falling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh] Reference