'Tilth' definitions:
Definition of 'tilth'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
noun
Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops [syn: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth]
Definition of 'Tilth'
From: GCIDE
- Tilth \Tilth\, n. [AS. til?, fr. tilian to till. See Till to cultivate.]
- 1. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth. [1913 Webster]
- The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the mother city. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]