Meaning of TILTH
| Pronunciation: | | tilth
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- [n] arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
- [n] the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
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| | Synonyms: | | cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land |
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| | See Also: | | condition, fallow, ground, land, soil, status | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Tilth\, n. [AS. til?, fr. tilian to till. See {Till} to
cultivate.]
1. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop;
culture; as, land is good tilth.
The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth.
--De Quincey.
2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. [R.]
And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the
mother city. --Tennyson.
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