† ardern.
Obsolete.
1. Ploughing; esp. the fallowing, or ploughing up vacant land some time before the seed is put in.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun]
eartheOE
earingOE
ploughing1374
fallowing1426
labouragec1475
ardagh1483
eara1500
fallowa1500
arder1581
waining1585
stitch1600
caruage1610
furrow1610
till1647
aration1663
bouting1733
breast-ploughing1754
prairie-breaking1845
sodbusting1965
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > ploughing for first time
inheche1274
arder1581
1581–2 Inventory in H. Best Rural Econ. in Yorks. (1857) 172 For tyllinge of barlye land, one arder.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. vii. 534 In one arder or two you shall make your ground as cleare of weedes as is possible.
1688 M. Robinson Treat. Faith 117 Who can expect to reap much from a single ardour, or once ploughing?
1793–1813 Agric. Surv. Durh. 68 What is here called four aders, viz. wheat, clover, oats, and fallow.]
2. The state of being ploughed up.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land > state of being ploughed
arder1524
1524 MS. Leases Dean & Ch. York i [The lessee to] leve the arable land in gud ardure and tilht.
3. Land ploughed up and left fallow, fallow land.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > fallow land
faugha1325
lea-landc1325
crestc1440
white land1459
fallow1523
hade?1523
rest-field1578
brise1600
summertilth1622
ardera1642
naked fallow1684
soil bank1955
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 138 To sowe olde ardures.
1668 Inventory in H. Best Rural Econ. in Yorks. (1857) 176 The winter corne sowne on the grounde, and the arders 45l.
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