The Collaborative International Dictionary
Table-land \Ta"ble-land`\, n. A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.
The toppling crags of Duty scaled,
Are close upon the shining table-lands
To which our God himself is moon and sun.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "table-land".
Court, one of the highest canyons of the Sierras, was in reality a plateau of table-land, embayed like a green lake in a semi-circular sweep of granite, that, lifting itself three thousand feet higher, became a foundation for the eternal snows.
Gibraltar or Ehrenbreitstein, say rather a high table-land in the region of perpetual, unmelting snow.
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The blood-red sun was sinking beyond the distant Geral Mountains, when a canoe, containing four white men and three natives, came to a halt a thousand miles from the mighty Amazon, in the upper waters of the Xingu River, near the great table-land of Matto Grosso.
Then came the Phylloxera, the vine-stocks perished and the once green table-land is now no more than a desolate stretch where a few tufts of hardy grasses sprout among the pebbles.
She is so indubitably sister to Mr. Smallweed the younger that the two kneaded into one would hardly make a young person of average proportions, while she so happily exemplifies the before-mentioned family likeness to the monkey tribe that attired in a spangled robe and cap she might walk about the table-land on the top of a barrelorgan without exciting much remark as an unusual specimen.
On the grass table-land at its summit is ample camping-ground, which had been utilised as a military cantonment of no mean strength.
You are all aware that the vast table-land of Tibet is the loftiest region upon the globe.