Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Cultivation of land.
- noun Land that has been tilled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation, practice, or art of tilling land, or preparing it for seed, and keeping the ground free from weeds which might impede the growth of crops; cultivation; culture; husbandry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.
- noun A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
cultivation ofarable land byplowing ,sowing andraising crops - noun land that has been so
cultivated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cultivation of soil for raising crops
- noun arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
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Examples
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They sowed much (v. 6), kept a great deal of ground in tillage, which, they might expect, would turn to a better advantage than usual, because their land had long lain fallow and had enjoyed its sabbaths.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Ejida -- State run cooperative farm, for produce, animals, and/or greenhouses (as opposed to a Manage curtilage or tillage, which is for an individual family).
Archive 2004-08-08 Maggie Jochild 2004
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Ejida -- State run cooperative farm, for produce, animals, and/or greenhouses (as opposed to a Manage curtilage or tillage, which is for an individual family).
PYA: GLOSSARY FROM SKENISH TO ENGLISH Maggie Jochild 2004
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Good tillage, which is too often neglected, is valuable.
Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902
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Farm carbon credits, called "tillage credits," have grown to become the single-largest source of carbon offsets in Alberta's trading scheme, which has been in effect since mid-2007.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE 2011
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They have proved themselves apt pupils, and today you will see in the glens of the Berg and in the plains Kaffir tillage which is as scientific as any in Africa.
Prester John 2005
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They have proved themselves apt pupils, and to-day you will see in the glens of the Berg and in the plains Kaffir tillage which is as scientific as any in Africa.
Prester John John Buchan 1907
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Now the Cyclopes neither plant nor plough, but trust in providence, and live on such wheat, barley, and grapes as grow wild without any kind of tillage, and their wild grapes yield them wine as the sun and the rain may grow them.
The Odyssey 1900
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Now the Cyclopes neither plant nor plough, but trust in providence, and live on such wheat, barley, and grapes as grow wild without any kind of tillage, and their wild grapes yield them wine as the sun and the rain may grow them.
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868
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In husbandry leases, a covenant to cultivate the land in a husbandlike manner, and according to the custom of the district, is always implied; but it is more usual to prescribe the course of tillage which is to be pursued.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
bilby commented on the word tillage
And the proud dreaming king who flung the crown
And sorrow away, and calling bard and clown
Dwelt among wine-stained wanderers in deep woods;
And him who sold tillage, and house, and goods,
And sought through lands and islands numberless years,
Until he found with laughter and with tears,
A woman, of so shining loveliness,
That men threshed corn at midnight by a tress,
A little stolen tress.
- W.B. Yeats, 'The Secret Rose'.
September 18, 2009