The Collaborative International Dictionary
Worn land
Worn \Worn\, p. p. of Wear.
Worn land, land that has become exhausted by tillage, or which for any reason has lost its fertility.
Usage examples of "worn land".
Not only was he one learned in the stern art of war (which was of vast use to Estcarp, for that torn and age-worn land was then locked in struggle with Karsten and Alizon, her neighbors), but he had that which the Wise Women could not countenance in a man, some of the Power for his own.