untillable
- a word derived from tillable.
Example Sentences
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Outside the cities, many live in poverty; about 85% of Iran's land is untillable without artificial irrigation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Larsen says he'll use all legal means to keep his land, which he says is mostly untillable mountainous terrain.
From Time Magazine Archive
So Pallas spake, Goddess cærulean-eyed, And o’er the untillable and barren Deep Departing, Scheria left, land of delight, Whence reaching Marathon, and Athens next, She pass’d into Erectheus’ fair abode.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
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 Waring, George E. (George Edwin)
The juncture was in a big, marshy, untillable flat, from which hills rose abruptly.
From Scattergood Baines by Kelland, Clarence Budington
