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inarable - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective rare Not arable.
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in- + arable
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'Instead of dreary inarable wastes, as supposed in earlier times, the millions of buffalo, elk, deer, mountain sheep, the primitive inhabitants of the soil, fed by the hand of nature, attest its capacity for the abundant support of a dense population through the skilful toil of the agriculturist, dealing with the earth under the guidance of the science of the present age.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
Marchant he treads the all-along of inarable drift
The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902
Yet I am persuaded it is a greater number than the country spoken of, considering how much inarable land it contains, can clothe and feed without a material change in the quality of their diet.
Notes on the State of Virginia 1853
On the other hand, fancy what an English Nation, once 'on the wing,' could have done with itself, had there been simply no soil, not even an inarable one, to alight on?
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
English Nation, once 'on the wing,' could have done with itself, had there been simply no soil, not even an inarable one, to alight on?
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
Page 93 than the country spoken of, considering how much inarable land it contains, can clothe and feed, without a material change in the quality of their diet.
Notes on the State of Virginia. 1826
They might say that our citizens should be paid in sterile inarable lands, at an extravagant price.
Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North-Carolina, Convened at 1788 1788
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