Tableland
Definition of tableland:
part of speech: noun
An extensive flat of elevated land, like a table: a plateau.
part of speech: noun
Usage examples for tableland:
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She had driven Waya and the other squaws far along the sparse tableland pasture in search of missing stock; she herself had lain out all night on the rocks beside an ailing heifer.
"Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories", Bret Harte. -
The air was cold but still, and bright sunshine shone upon the tableland which rolled north, rising steadily towards distant snow- streaked hills.
"Carmen's Messenger", Harold Bindloss. -
They did not speak until they had passed out beyond the town towards the bare tableland that leads to the sea.
"Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories", Henry Seton Merriman. -
When they reached the top of the ascent, she mounted and they went on among scattered clumps of pines and across a tableland as fast as he could travel, because it seemed prudent to place as long a distance as possible between them and the settlement.
"Prescott of Saskatchewan", Harold Bindloss.