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View synonyms for tillage

tillage

[ til-ij ]

noun

  1. the operation, practice, or art of tilling till land.
  2. tilled till land.


tillage

/ ˈtɪlɪdʒ /

noun

  1. the act, process, or art of tilling
  2. tilled land
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tillage1

First recorded in 1480–90; till 2 + -age
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Example Sentences

The practice of tillage — churning the ground to destroy weeds and facilitate the planting of next year’s crop — has depleted the very earth from which our food is grown.

It contains directions for draining, clearing, and inclosing a farm, and for enriching the soil and reducing it to tillage.

The acts to prevent the landholder from oppressing the occupier, and those for the encouragement of tillage, failed.

The soil was mainly mountain land and meagrely productive under toilsome and careful tillage.

The ground was so favorable for tillage, that twenty men labored at an acre and a half in one day.

As a means of breaking up the ground the plough is infinitely superior; for tillage and cultivation the hoe is far more useful.

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