Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Cultivation of land; tillage.
- n. Tilled earth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of tilling; plowing, sowing, and the round of agricultural operations; tillage; cultivation.
- n. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop: as, land is in good tilth when it is manured, plowed, broken, and mellowed for receiving the seed.
- n. That which is tilled; tillage-ground.
- n. Crop; produce.
- n. The degree or depth of soil turned by the plow or spade in cultivation; that available soil on the earth's surface into which the roots of crops strike.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
- n. Rich cultivated soil.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
- n. That which is tilled; tillage ground.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
- n. arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English, from tilian, to labor.
Examples
“After the beginning of March, you shall beginne to sow your Barley vpon that ground which the yéere before did lye fallow, and is commonly called your tilth, or fallow field: and if any part of it consist of stiffe and tough ground, then you shall, vpon such ground, sow your”
“Rake it all over to a good 'tilth' (gardening-speak for well-mixed, crumbly soil that allows room for plants to expand and grow and get the air they need) and you're ready to go.”
“One horticultural dictionary defines "tilth" as the fine crumbly surface layer of soil produced by tilling.”
“Heavier soils can be dug when it's dry so frost action will help break clods to a tilth.”
“Your homemade compost will promote soil structure, help to maintain soil moisture, moderate soil temperature, improve soil tilth, balance your soil's pH level so that nutrients are released slowly to plants and provide a food source for soil organisms.”
“Bermed beds with incredible soil tilth and free labor in the way of unpaid students to plant and weed make the plantings here lush and healthy.”
““Your women are a tilth for you (to cultivate) so go to your tilth as ye will” (2:223)”
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“Six and a half thousand years ago, as the sea receded, the marsh silted up with a rich tilth and became, in slow succession, a freshwater reed swamp, then a wet fen woodland, and then a raised bog.”
“Earth had gathered in the cavity of its head and, as I eased it out, a fine tilth of dried soil emptied onto my palm, like sand running through an egg timer.”
“These are the fair virgin streams of Nile, the river that waters Egypt's tilth, fed by pure melting snow instead of rain from heaven.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tilth’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 374 more...
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Down on the Farm
All things farm and agriculture related.
barn, tractor, cow, hay, horse, pig, corn, plough, irrigation, subsidies, crops, plant and 260 more...
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Tolkien's archaisms
sigaldry, moot, kine, fey, eyot, ghylls, gangrel, glede, ilexes, laved, niggard, league and 44 more...
corylusavellana A good tilth is always so very pleasing. Jan 2, 2009