n. The quantity of land allotted for the work of one plough; a hide.
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n. arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
Word Usage
"I throw my mind out in the air as a man throws seeds in great fan-flights, falling through the purple sunset, falling on the pressed and shining ploughland which is bare."