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noun

Tilth n.

The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth. "The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth."

That which is tilled; tillage ground. (R.) "And so by tilth and grange... We gained the mother city."

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Etymology of 'Tilth'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tilth" Quotes from Famous Books

... winnowing-fan and the Seasons whose feet are in the furrows Heronax lays here from the poverty of a small tilth their share of ears from the threshing-floor, and these mixed seeds of pulse on a slabbed table, the least of a little; for no great inheritance is this he has gotten him, ...

— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail

... countryside has no point of interest to distinguish it from any other representative bit of rural Essex. It is merely one of those quiet corners of flat, homely England, where man and beast seem on good terms with each other, where all green things grow in abundance, where from of old tilth and pasture-land are humbly observant of seasons and alternations, where the brown roads are familiar only with the tread of the labourer, with the light wheel of the farmer's gig, or the rumbling of the solid warn. By the roadside you pass occasionally a mantled pool, where perchance ...

— The Nether World • George Gissing

Words linked to "Tilth" : status, cultivated land, land, fallow, farmland, tillage, ground, tilled land, plowland, ploughland, condition