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tilth
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tilth has 2 senses
- tilth(n = noun.state) Array - the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth; Array is a kind of condition, status
- tilth(n = noun.object) cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land - arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops; Array has particulars: fallow
is a kind of ground, land, soil
CIDE DICTIONARY
tilth, n. [AS. til, fr. tilian to till. See Till to cultivate.].
- The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth. [1913 Webster]"The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth." [1913 Webster]
- That which is tilled; tillage ground. [1913 Webster]"And so by tilth and grange . . .
We gained the mother city." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tilth, n.
1 tillage, cultivation.
2 the condition of tilled soil (in good tilth).
1 tillage, cultivation.
2 the condition of tilled soil (in good tilth).
Etymology
OE tilth(e) (as TILL(3))
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