They would have nothing but the most primitive ability to take a crude living from the sea and small patches of land.
Most owned tiny patches of land, a little more than an acre each.
I've got family on a patch of land up toward Canada.
He has no desire to rule the world, but wants only to tend his own patch of land.
The villagers are known to have patches of land for growing vegetables.
Decades ago, he had come from England to this patch of land and just never left.
There are only a few small patches of flat land on its shores.
This created what is the only patch of arable land for many miles around.
So many things in such a tiny, raw patch of land.
There is a little patch of forested land behind our house where the kids like to play.