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Definition of Tillage
1. Noun. Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops.
Specialized synonyms: Fallow
Generic synonyms: Ground, Land, Soil
Derivative terms: Till
2. Noun. The cultivation of soil for raising crops.
Definition of Tillage
1. n. 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.
Definition of Tillage
1. Noun. the cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops ¹
2. Noun. land that has been so cultivated ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tillage
1. cultivated land [n -S]
Medical Definition of Tillage
1. 1. 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. 2. A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land. Synonym: Cultivation, culture, husbandry, farming, agriculture. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tillage
Literary usage of Tillage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Agriculture: A Text-book for Schools and Rural Societies by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898)
"What tillage Is 84. We have found (52, 79) that tillage is one of the means of
improving ... By tillage is meant the stirring of the soil for the purpose of ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1809)
"Thought! on tillage and the Corn Laws. By an Old tillage , Farmer. Hvo. pp. 71.
2s. Woolmer, Exeter. 1808. This Old Farmer writes with great modesty and ..."
3. Alternative Farming Systems by K. Schnieder (1994)
"In all years of the study, green foxtail densities were greater in chisel plow
and no-tillage than in the conventional tillage system, while ridge tillage ..."
4. Farm Machinery and Farm Motors by Jay Brownlee Davidson, Leon Wilson Chase (1908)
"CHAPTER IV tillage MACHINERY 83. Object of tillage.—Agricultural implements and
machines used in preparing the soil for the seeding or growth of crops may ..."
5. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"1 tillage AND UK VI. Eyery farmer will admit the advantages of tillage of the
top soil, but we never hear of the tillage of the under or subsoil, ..."
6. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce by William Cunningham (1890)
"follow that they were so wholly ignorant of tillage that they BC 55— did not
practise it at all. Primitive agriculture is perfectly consistent with a very ..."
7. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"The tillage of the jand in early times was confined very largely to that which
... In the vineyards of southern Europe, however, Tull observed that tillage ..."
8. English Agriculture in 1850-51 by James Caird (1852)
"In three parishes which we visited, the proportion of tillage to pasture was very
small, there being in the first only 8 acres in 2000 under the plough, ..."
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