tillage
Origin of tillage
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How to use tillage in a sentence
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.
A recipe for fighting climate change and feeding the world | Sarah Kaplan | October 12, 2021 | Washington PostIt contains directions for draining, clearing, and inclosing a farm, and for enriching the soil and reducing it to tillage.
Landholding In England | Joseph FisherThe acts to prevent the landholder from oppressing the occupier, and those for the encouragement of tillage, failed.
Landholding In England | Joseph FisherThe soil was mainly mountain land and meagrely productive under toilsome and careful tillage.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 | VariousThe ground was so favorable for tillage, that twenty men labored at an acre and a half in one day.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. Schoolcraft
As a means of breaking up the ground the plough is infinitely superior; for tillage and cultivation the hoe is far more useful.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. Tyler
British Dictionary definitions for tillage
/ (ˈtɪlɪdʒ) /
the act, process, or art of tilling
tilled land
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