untillable
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a word derived from
tillable.
Example Sentences
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Larsen says he'll use all legal means to keep his land, which he says is mostly untillable mountainous terrain.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Outside the cities, many live in poverty; about 85% of Iran's land is untillable without artificial irrigation.
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The juncture was in a big, marshy, untillable flat, from which hills rose abruptly.
From Scattergood Baines by Clarence Budington Kelland
Soils are, thereby, rendered earlier in spring, because the water, which rendered them cold, heavy, and untillable, is earlier removed, leaving them earlier in a growing condition.
From The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by George E. (George Edwin) Waring
Considerable as is the cultivation, it bears a very small proportion to the great extent of waste, and probably untillable land, untillable from the extreme thinness of the soil and its superabundant stones.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith