Like farmland

Usage examples of arable.

Now and then a much larger flock comes down into the plain, wheeling to and fro, and presently descending upon an arable field, where they cover the ground.

Though watery, on account of the artificial drains from the arable fields, the spot is on much higher ground than the brook, and it is a little singular that while reeds flourish in this place they are not to be found by the brook.

The appearance of the open arable field over which I was looking changed as it approached.

Still another shines at night in an open arable field, where is a barn.

I found attacking the missel-thrushes are situate at the edge of extensive arable fields.

One afternoon there rose up a flock of rooks out of a large oak tree standing separate in the midst of an arable field which was then at last being ploughed.

But, then, the sheep-farmer has to occupy a certain proportion of arable land as well as pasture, and here his heavy losses mainly occur.

Six billion mouths to feed on a world with shrinking arable land and resources.

He knew that Seakeepdale consisted of all this now visible to him and twice again as much land, but only this one vale was arable to any large extent or permanently inhabited.

Its territory was vast, aye, but it was poor in arable land, as Una had admitted from the outset, the most of that and all of the best being centered in the valley guarded by her round tower.

Like an Edenist habitat, nobody lived on the cavern floor itself, it was a communal park and arable farm.

There was neither arable land nor implements to grow anything like adequate crops.

Large tracts of country about here once laid out for arable are now converted into grazing grounds, for the number of cattle is yearly on the increase.

It will open up the forests, the arable country land, the cattle-breeding districts, and, above all, the mineral deposits.

The Siberian line is designed to run through the arable lands of the fertile zone.