1. tilled or arable land, seed-land, cornland , Lat. arvum, and in plural corn-lands, fields , (Iliad by Homer): then, generally, land, earth , (Iliad by Homer); πατρὶς ἄρουρα father land , (Odyssey by Homer)

2. metaphorically of a woman as bearing children , (Aeschulus Tragicus)

3. a measure of land in Egypt, nearly = the Roman jugerum , (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)