What is "benchland"

Usage examples of "benchland".

Just before coming to this place, they had crossed a long, narrow benchland covered with stunted fir, pine, and spruce.

She stood poised on the edge of the limitless plains, facing the benchland of tall grass with its hidden coulees and flat buttes.

LED FOR FIVE MILES through as wild a country as I ever seen outside the Humbolts, and then I seen a cabin ahead, on a wide benchland and that backed agen a steep mountain slope.

Purchasing six galvanized buckets from Levi, he plowed up a small corner of his dry benchland, planted it with varied crops, then directed his wife and children to haul water all summer to keep the plants alive.

Beyond the spires, the city of Waterdeep stretched across the benchland like a magnificent diorama, complete with smoking chimneys and fluttering flags.

For three successive years he spent considerable money and effort, producing nothing except the hard-won conclusion that without irrigation his benchlands were useless, except to grow native grass for the grazing of cattle.

This was a puny effort, not much larger than the private ditch dug by Brumbaugh, and it did nothing for the important accumulations of benchlands to the north.

Most of it was benchlands where thin crops of barley and wheat were already heading out, interspersed with erosion-gullies.

By the 1790's, the intermediate benchlands were brought under cultivation to supply grain, meat, leather, timber and working stock for the mines and sugar plantations.