Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tilling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Till \Till\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tilled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tilling}.] [OE. tilen, tilien, AS. tilian, teolian, to aim,
strive for, till; akin to OS. tilian to get, D. telen to
propagate, G. zielen to aim, ziel an end, object, and perhaps
also to E. tide, time, from the idea of something fixed or
definite. Cf. {Teal}, {Till}, prep..]
1. To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise
crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a
field, a farm.
No field nolde [would not] tilye. --P. Plowman.
the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,
to till the ground from whence he was taken. --Gen.
iii. 23.
2. To prepare; to get. [Obs.] --W. Browne.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tilling
n : cultivation of the land in order to raise crops
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