Plough-land
21tillage land — Plough land, arable land …
22Plough Team — ♦ Often assessed at eight oxen per team; in the richest agricultural areas, like the Severn valley, there were between three and five per square mile. On harsher land like the fringes of Dartmoor, a smallholder might own only one or two oxen.… …
23plow-land — Same as plough land …
24Stump-jump plough — Plan of the original single furrow plough The stump jump plough is a kind of plough invented in South Australia in the late nineteenth century by Richard Bowyer Smith to solve the particular problem of preparing mallee lands for cultivation.… …
25New Zealand land confiscations — The New Zealand land confiscations took place during the 1860s to punish the Kingitanga movement for attempting to set up an alternative, Māori, form of government that forbade the selling of land. The confiscation law targeted Kingitanga Māori… …
26Arable land — In geography, arable land (from Latin arare , to plough) is an agricultural term, meaning land that can be used for growing crops. Of the earth s 148,940,000 km² (57.5 million square miles) of land, approximately 19,824,000 km² (7.65 million… …
27Trench plough — Trench Trench, n. [OE. trenche, F. tranch[ e]e. See {Trench}, v. t.] 1. A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land. Mortimer. [1913 Webster] 2. An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the… …
28Trench-plough — Trench plow Trench plow , Trench plough Trench plough ( plou ), v. t. To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual. [1913 Webster] …
29We Plough the Fields and Scatter — We Plough the Fields and Scat|ter a ↑hymn (=a song of praise to God) sung in the UK at ↑Harvest Festivals. It begins: We plough the fields and scatter/The good seed on the land,/But it is fed and watered/By God s almighty hand …
30stump|jump plough — or stump|jump plow «STUHMP JUHMP», Australian. a machine by which land can be plowed without clearing it of stumps …
