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Tilled land

noun
1.
Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops.  Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilth.






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"Tilled land" Quotes from Famous Books



... of it, and then to plan out a future for his crowns. This it is to conjugate the verb "to enjoy" in every tense. And the old lawyer, whose affections were all bound up in a single attachment, was thinking that all the carefully-chosen, well-tilled land which he had pinched and scraped to buy would one day go to round the d'Esgrignon estates, and the thought doubled his pleasure. His pride swelled as he sat at his ease in the old armchair; and the building of glowing coals, which he raised with ...
— The Jealousies of a Country Town • Honore de Balzac

... until by 1860 there had risen in West Dougherty perhaps the richest slave kingdom the modern world ever knew. A hundred and fifty barons commanded the labor of nearly six thousand Negroes, held sway over farms with ninety thousand acres tilled land, valued even in times of cheap soil at three millions of dollars. Twenty thousand bales of ginned cotton went yearly to England, New and Old; and men that came there bankrupt made money and grew rich. In a single ...
— The Souls of Black Folk • W. E. B. Du Bois



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