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Definition of Tillable

1. Adjective. (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively.

Definition of Tillable

1. a. Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.

Definition of Tillable

1. Adjective. (context: of land) able to be tilled or ploughed; arable ¹

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Definition of Tillable

1. till [adj] - See also: till

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tillable

Literary usage of Tillable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature and Man in America by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1891)
"Details of the New England District ; Surface tillable Soils ; Variety of Occupations. — New York District ; Comparison of its Resources with those of New ..."

2. Nature and Man in America by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1891)
"Details of the New England District; Surface tillable Soils; Variety of Occupations. — New York District; Comparison of its Resources with those of New ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"... of barren mountain, a third is tillable land that remains uncultivated, and a third is cultivated rudely, but produces superior olives and other fruits, ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Railroads by Horace Gay Wood (1885)
"... what its value would be if cleared up and converted into tillable ' laud.3 If a surplus water-power is taken, it should be valued at its ing location ..."

5. Britain and Her Colonies by Jesse Beaufort Hurlbert (1865)
"... in England—Policy of the Empire—Who Dictates it—New Confederation of British America—Extent and Resources—Population—Area of tillable Soil Compared with ..."

6. A Treatise on State and Federal Control of Persons and Property in the by Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman (1900)
"... marriages with the deceased wife's sister, as Mr. Bishop expresses it, " in most of the States, are not only not forbidden, but deemed com- • -tillable. ..."

7. Report of the State Engineer of California, on Irrigation and the Irrigation by California Office of State Engineer, William Hammond Hall (1888)
"SOILS: IRRIGABLE AND tillable LANDS. The Mountain Valleys. About 15 per cent of the seaward slope of the country, or say four hundred thousand acres, ..."

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