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piece of ground

NOUN
  1. an extended area of land

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  • Shortly after leaving the outskirts of Adonis the car slithered down a sloping piece of ground, teetered over a low bank, and splashed logily into water. The Past Through Tomorrow
  • A group of urban youngsters has turned a vacant piece of ground into a viable vegetable farm using hydroponics.
  • The remains can be reinterred in an unconsecrated piece of ground at the courthouse.
  • They left New York City in the late 1960s for a shaley piece of ground in the Catskills and began learning to grow and raise their own food. The Dirty Life
  • [The word _birm_ seems to have the same meaning as berme (Fr. _berme_), which, in Fortification, denotes a piece of ground of three, four, or five feet in width, left between the rampart and the moat or foss, designed to receive the ruins of the rampart, and prevent the earth from filling the foss. Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • A small court, yard, garth or piece of ground attached to a dwelling house, and forming one enclosure with it, or so regarded by the law; the area attached to and containing a dwelling house and its outbuildings.
  • That Piece of Ground lay for some Years unlaboured; and trenching it, the Gardner found them, which affrighted him the Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
  • Hockey is usually played on the ice by players on skates, although, like the old game of shinney, it may be played on any level piece of ground. Outdoor Sports and Games
  • The houses are thatched with a reed-like grass called tussock, which is grown in the gardens or on a piece of ground near. Three Years in Tristan da Cunha
  • In nine cases out of 10, it will be a square piece of ground with straight rows of carrots and spuds. Times, Sunday Times
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