Ivee
Established Member
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Please appraise.
Meaning:
1. Land that is ploughed for growing crops; arable land.
2. A measure of land used in the northern and eastern counties of England after the Norman conquest, based on the area able to be ploughed in a year by a team of eight oxen.
Qutote: ‘Now tractors, settled villages and efficient irrigation schemes fed from dams along the Sebou river have turned the area into permanent ploughland.’
Meaning:
1. Land that is ploughed for growing crops; arable land.
2. A measure of land used in the northern and eastern counties of England after the Norman conquest, based on the area able to be ploughed in a year by a team of eight oxen.
Qutote: ‘Now tractors, settled villages and efficient irrigation schemes fed from dams along the Sebou river have turned the area into permanent ploughland.’
