Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tilth"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth.
--De Quincey.
2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. [R.]
And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the
mother city. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tilth
n 1: the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for
supporting plant growth
2: land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
[syn: {cultivated land}, {tilled land}, {tillage}]
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