Tableland

Definition of tableland:

part of speech: noun

An extensive flat of elevated land, like a table: a plateau.

part of speech: noun

A plateau, or broad, elevated piece of land.

Usage examples for tableland:

• 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.