plowland

noun

plow·​land

variants or ploughland

ˈ⸗ˌland

1

: any of various old English units of land area : carucate

division of the arable land into units called plowlands, each … composed of eight "oxgangs"

—F. M. Stenton

2

a

: arable land

a third of the plowland

—World Report

b

: a plot of such land

a green hillock at the edge of a plowland

—John Drinkwater

Word History

Etymology

Middle English plowlond, from plow, plough plow + land, lond land

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