arable

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  1. adjective Fit for cultivation, as by plowing.
  2. noun Land fit to be cultivated.

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  • My predecessor had found that his arable land was approaching a condition in which it was difficult to continue the usual course of cropping, and had expressed his wish to one of the men that all the arable was grass. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
  • Protestantism peaceably kept concealed, hurting nobody; wholesomely forwarding the wooden-clock manufacture, and arable or grazier husbandries, of those poor people. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • On this left or west bank of Oder the country is arable, moderately grassy and umbrageous, the prospect round you not unpleasant; but eastward, over the River, nothing can be more in contrast. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • When once the ground is arable, I reckon upon 300 families for it, and 500 head of cows, -- ha? ' —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • "Naw," Gus replied, pointing to the far corner. —  Myth Conceptions
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin arābilis, from arāre, to plow.

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  1. from French arable, from Latin arabilis, that can be plowed, from arare, plow, = Greek ἀροῡν = Goth, arjan = Icelandic erja = Anglo-Saxon erian, later English ear, plow: see ear.
 

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/ˈærəbl/
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