inarableadj.
/ɪnˈarəb(ə)l/ Not arable; incapable of being ploughed.In Bailey, Johnson, etc.
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Inarable, not arable, that cannot be plowed.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. viii. 236 No soil, not even an inarable one.
1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 166 A place lying all in dimples and wrinkles..grassy but inarable.
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