WordNet
n. an extended area of land [syn: tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel]
Usage examples of "parcel of land".
A clever sapper may undermine a keep, a wall, even a parcel of land, so that when any heavy vehicle, weapon, or creature strays onto it, the structure collapses immediately.
With that had come the stunning but unsurprising realization that nobody wanted to pay book value for a parcel of land.
When Baron Emmerhard has more daughters than he can count, any one of which would fetch a pretty parcel of land with her, eh?
He studied the faces of the four men who were with him and realized that all were younger sons and brothers, men whose destiny was to linger as soldiers in a minor house until they were granted leave to wed and start families, living on a small parcel of land granted them by the Lord of the Tondora.
A Large Parcel Of Land For The New United Nations Headquarters-The Site Of An Abattoir On The East River-Was Bought With $8.
Amaut were at heart farmers and diggers in the earth, and the hope of these forlorn, untidy little folk was a small parcel of land somewhere—.
Okay, I'd get me one of those sheepskins, then come back and-well, go to Callisto, maybe, or perhaps prove a new parcel of land.