tillage

English

Etymology

From Middle English tillage; by surface analysis, till +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪlɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪdʒ

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• Hyphenation: till‧age

Noun

tillage (countable and uncountable, plural tillages)

2. The cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.

   Synonyms: cultivating, cultivation

3. Land cultivated in this way.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 13:23:

     Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

5. The act or process of soil disturbance as a part of farming; especially, types of disturbance requiring draft animals or machinery for power.

   Antonyms: no-till, no-tillage

   Hyponyms: cultivating, cultivation, harrowing, hoeing, mattocking, picking, ploughing, plowing, raking, rototilling, shoveling

Synonyms

• tilling

Derived terms

• cotillage
• no-tillage
• tillaged
• tillage radish

 

Translations

cultivation of arable land

• Bulgarian: оран (bg) f (oran)
• Czech: obdělávání půdy, orba (cs) f
• Danish: jordbearbejdning c
• French: labour (fr) m
• Galician: labranza f
• German: Bestellung (de) f, Bodenbearbeitung (de) f
• Irish: ar m (literary)
• Italian: coltivazione (it) f
• Latvian: aparšana f
• Portuguese: lavoura (pt) f
• Romanian: arătură (ro) f, pământ arabil n, pământ cultivat
• Russian: земледе́лие (ru) n (zemledélije)
• Spanish: labranza (es) f
• Turkish: toprağı sürme (tr)
• Welsh: âr m or f

land cultivated in this way

• German: bestelltes Land (de) n
• Turkish: sürülmüş toprak (tr)
• Welsh: âr m or f, ardir m

See also

• carucage

 

Further reading

• tillage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• gallite, tigella