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prettygoodwordarable (AR-uh-buhl) - adj., fit for cultivation, as by plowing or tilling.
In contrast to pasturable land, used for grazing -- and with land not useful for any sort of farming, such as bogs, rocks, etc. Dates to around 1400, from Anglo-Norman arable, from Middle French, from Old French, from Latin arābilis, from arāre, to plow -bilis, able to be. (The earlier form erable/earable was from eren to plow, from Old English erian, from the same Latin root arāre.)
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In contrast to pasturable land, used for grazing -- and with land not useful for any sort of farming, such as bogs, rocks, etc. Dates to around 1400, from Anglo-Norman arable, from Middle French, from Old French, from Latin arābilis, from arāre, to plow -bilis, able to be. (The earlier form erable/earable was from eren to plow, from Old English erian, from the same Latin root arāre.)
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