The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plowgate \Plow"gate`\, Ploughgate \Plough"gate`\, n. The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland.
Not having one plowgate of land.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of ploughland English)
WordNet
n. arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops [syn: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth]
Usage examples of "plowland".
The ancient folkways of England called to them, albeit the call came ever more and more faintly since the war, as the plowlands grew depleted of their young blood and the new generation swarmed over the cities instead.
A walled city of no more than eight or nine thousand, surrounded by plowland and orchards, it was bleak in winter.
It came down out of the mountains at length, into a valley where abandoned plowlands glistened like dark metal with the frost.
Paks looked down gentler slopes to see plowland and the pink and white of fruit trees in bloom.
Turks, filled his yard with children and asses and mares and oxen, turned wild land into plowland, planted vineyards and olives and built a church for his soul, too.