tillable
adjective
able to be tilled; arable.
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
Outside the cities, many live in poverty; about 85% of Iran's land is untillable without artificial irrigation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
These people still use what wood can be grown on the untillable land within transporting distance, and convert much wood into charcoal, making transportation over longer distances easier.
From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King
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 William Cowper
