How To Use ploughland In A Sentence
- -- when their lords travelled from place to place -- with summer-oats, with providing for their cosherings, or feasts, at Christmas and Easter, with "black men and black money," for border defence, and with workmen and axemen from every ploughland, to work in the ditches, or to hew passages for the soldiery through the woods. A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete
- Walking away from the grand old house, we crossed thick clay ploughland studded with flood-smoothed pebbles. Times, Sunday Times
- The far perspectives were all tumbled between green-grazing, yellow-cut hayfields and the dense milky pink of ploughland. Times, Sunday Times
- They prefer old, regularly used pastures, but they are also often seen on ploughland. Times, Sunday Times
- Along the margins of thick clay ploughland, oak leaves were beginning to turn brown and crisp. Times, Sunday Times
- Maize and sugar beet or open ploughland. The Times Literary Supplement
- Seignorial rights of this kind were commonly less dependent on lordship over ploughland, and less concerned with labour services, than the classic model of the manor would imply.
- The camp stood where, until quite lately, had been pasture and ploughland.
- This was done by ordering a carucage at the rate of three shillings on the ploughland. The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
- Carlisle, had from its foundation been endowed with a thrave of corn from every ploughland in Cumberland. Shakespeare's Family
