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Open-field system

Meaning in history, with examples

nounCommon term

In history, open-field system means: A farming arrangement with holdings divided into strips across large fields managed through shared rules.

In Turkish: açık tarla sistemi

How it is used

Describe both fragmented holdings and coordinated use; an unfenced field alone is not the whole system.

Example sentences

  1. The map shows one household's strips scattered through the open-field system.

    A farm's land could be dispersed rather than held in one block.

  2. Village agreements regulated grazing within the open-field system.

    Collective rules coordinate the use of individually held strips.

Common collocations

  • an open-field system
  • open-field agriculture
  • agrarianRelating to farming, land and the people who work it, or describing a society or economy based mainly on agriculture.
  • peasantA person who lives in the countryside and farms a small piece of land with family labour, often paying rent, taxes or labour services to a landowner or the state.

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