Untilled land

  • 1untilled — adjective Of land, having not been tilled. Spring was upon us and the ground remained untilled …

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  • 2untilled — adjective (of land) not prepared and cultivated for crops …

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  • 3Jack's Land —    In Scotland, there is a relatively well known custom of Cloutie s Croft , the name given to a portion of the best land of a farm which is always left untilled and uncultivated as it belongs to the Devil. In many areas of England, similar… …

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  • 4old land —  ground that has lain long untilled, and just ploughed up. The same in Essex is called new lands …

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  • 5virgin soil — untilled land, field that has not been sown …

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  • 6lea. — 1. league. 2. leather. * * * lea1 «lee», noun. a grassy field; meadow; pasture: »The linnet sings wildly across the green lea (K. T. Hinkson). ╂[Old English lēah] …

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  • 7Byzantine Empire — the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Empire in A.D. 476. Cap.: Constantinople. * * * Empire, southeastern and southern Europe and western Asia. It began as the city of Byzantium, which had grown from an ancient Greek colony… …

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  • 8Fall of the Ottoman Empire — issues cleanup=Sep 2008 refimprove=Sep 2008 wikify=Sep 2008 Republic of Turkey (superimposed upon modern borders). Some scholars argue the power of the Caliphate began waning by 1683, and without the acquisition of significant new wealth the… …

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  • 9fallow — I. a. 1. Pale red or pale yellow. 2. Untilled, unsowed, left uncultivated, neglected. 3. Inert, inactive, dormant. II. n. Untilled land …

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  • 10Economic history of the Ottoman Empire — covers the period 1299 1923. The economic history falls into two distinctive sub periods.Fact|date=July 2008 The first is the classic era (enlargement), which comprised a closed agricultural economy, showing regional distinctions within the… …

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