tillable

• Less than one-fourth of the land is tillable, and not more than a quarter of that is level. —  A Backward Glance at Eighty
• The land between the tillable or cane ridges, was low swamp, almost quagmire, never thoroughly dry, and almost impassable nine months out of the year. —  The Swamp Doctor's Adventures
• One individual said the original intent of the ditch was to allow for making farmland more tillable, and not for lowering the level of lakes. —  The Fergus Falls Daily Journal
• Kostelnick said 16 acres of the land is tillable, and the rest of it is a wooded area, with Bluff Creek passing through it. —  Iowa State Daily
• Perched on the hills overlooking these bottoms, and sometimes located on the lower levels, there was once a number of large and important villages, while in the regions on the south, where the tillable areas are as a rule very much smaller, the settlements were, with one exception, small and generally insignificant. —  Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262

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