Tilth

2 definitions found

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

  Tilth \Tilth\, n. [AS. til?, fr. tilian to till. See {Till} to
     cultivate.]
     1. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop;
        culture; as, land is good tilth.
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              The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth.
                                                    --De Quincey.
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     2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. [R.]
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              And so by tilth and grange . . .
              We gained the mother city.            --Tennyson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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