unploughed
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a word derived from
plough.
Example Sentences
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When they do, ever more land often goes unclaimed, unploughed, unrestrained.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2020
The buggy was moving at a quiet jog along a “neighborhood road,” with unploughed fields on the right and a darkling woods pasture on the left.
From Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable
Sitting on an unploughed strip of land, between two fields,--such as take the place of fences in that hedgeless country,--our friends spent the afternoon in singing and kissing.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
"The land, unploughed, shall yield her crop; Pure honey from the oak shall drop; The fountain shall run milk; The thistle shall the lily bear; And every bramble roses wear, And every worm make silk."
From The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism by John Greenleaf Whittier
The land, 'if unploughed, would have been good pasture for beasts.'
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing