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patch noun A small piece or area of ground distinct from surrounding land by the crop, plant, or other growth that dominates it. Most often it is a cultivated plot of land detached from the main area of gardening or farming.

1864 Chapman CW Letters (March 31) if you Can manage to plant A patch of Corne doo so. 1914 Arthur Western NC 254 Land was plentiful in those primitive times and as fast as a piece of “new ground” was worn out, another “patch” was cleared and cultivated until it, in its turn, was given over to weeds and pasturage. 1939 Hall Coll (Proctor NC) The dogs just stove off the road into a little laurel patch, and there they jumped another big one [=a bear]. 1962 Wilson Folkways Mammoth Cave 11 A small area cultivated was a patch, except where tobacco was grown; that was always a tobacco /tobacker/ patch, regardless of its acreage. 1997 Nelson Country Folklore 128 Mark and his wife, Beenie, who we all called aunt and uncle, lived past a patch of woods in a clearing above the pea patch.