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tillage

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till·age  (tlj)
n.
1. Cultivation of land.
2. Land that has been tilled.
tillage
Noun
1. the act, process, or art of tilling
2. tilled land
tillage
agriculture.
See also: Agriculture
Tillage the crops growing on tilled land, 1543.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.tillagetillage - arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
ploughland, plowland, tilled land, cultivated land, farmland, tilth
fallow - cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
land, soil, ground - material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"
2.tillage - the cultivation of soil for raising crops
culture - the raising of plants or animals; "the culture of oysters"


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Moreover (Levin felt that the irascible landowner had been right) the peasants made their first and unalterable condition of any agreement whatever that they should not be forced to any new methods of tillage of any kind, nor to use new implements.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Then a slice of our neighbours' land will be wanted by us for pasture and tillage, and they will want a slice of ours, if, like ourselves, they exceed the limit of necessity, and give themselves up to the unlimited accumulation of wealth?
The Republic by Plato View in context
The appeal duly found its way to the breakfast-table of the quiet Vicarage to the westward, in that valley where the air is so soft and the soil so rich that the effort of growth requires but superficial aid by comparison with the tillage at Flintcomb-Ash, and where to Tess the human world seemed so different (though it was much the same).
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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