Tillage

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tillage \Till"age\, n.
     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.
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     2. A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.
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     Syn: Cultivation; culture; husbandry; farming; agriculture.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tillage
       n 1: arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising
            crops [syn: {cultivated land}, {farmland}, {plowland}, {ploughland},
             {tilled land}, {tilth}]
       2: the cultivation of soil for raising crops