WordNet
n. arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops [syn: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tillage, tilth]
Usage examples of "tilled land".
On all sides were thick forests of pine, but in the open was much tilled land hi which grew a long-leafed tall plant which I did not recognize, and after some difficulty secured the name of teocentli for it.
Alone among the furrows, he stood easily, the hoe over his shoulder, and he looked off at the tilled land in a waiting attitude as, over the shallow brow of the hill beyond, a horde of figures appeared, waving aloft a forest of hoes, ragged against the skyline.
The open country sank into a deep dark tinge of blue beneath the pearly heavens, and I could see the forests encroaching on the tilled land, creeping higher here and there, as the hills folded over one another or sank steeply into valleys of pure blackness.
North of that was something new: several hundred acres of tilled land, tall green corn and potato vines and wheat stubble, fed by furrows diverted from the river that ran down from the High Sierras to the west.
And they walked together through the rich field, under the clearing sky, on their tilled land by the deep river.
Like my mountain, the tilled land eroded and grew stones, not crops, and the farms were abandoned.
Stoutly built stone crofts, each with a patch of diligently tilled land, were loosely gathered around the market and the shrine.
When the third bottle of wine came, I began to talk of my life, as I'd never done before -- of what it was like each day to ride out into the mountains, to go so far I couldn't see the towers of my father's house anymore, to ride above the tilled land to the place where the forest seemed almost haunted.
When the third bottle of wine came, I began to talk of my life, as I'd never done before-of what it was like each day to ride out into the mountains, to go so far I couldn't see the towers of my father's house anymore, to ride above the tilled land to the place where the forest seemed almost haunted.
No attempt was made to stop him as he walked out of the village, past the undisturbed Sepelora, and on to the low hills beyond the tilled land.