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Tilth

noun

The state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth.

Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops. Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land.

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"Tilth" Quotes from Famous Books

... persuading persons (farmers in particular) to adopt any new systems; and I have often, when speaking of this subject amongst men of enlightened understandings, been told it would be next to madness, to sacrifice the benefit of a crop of oats or barley when the land is in fine tilth, and whilst we can ...

— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury

... of that flood Of passion by the blood Of heroes consecrate, by poet's craft Hallowed, if that thin waft Of godhead blown upon thee stretch thy song To span such store of strong And splendid vision of immortal themes Late harvested in dreams, Albeit long years laid up in tilth. Most meet Thou sing that slim and sweet Fair woman for whose bosom and delight Paris, as well he might, Wrought all the woe, and held her to his cost And Troy's, and won and lost Perforce; for who could look ...

— Helen Redeemed and Other Poems • Maurice Hewlett

... required. Men from the sea Might rise, and from the land the scaly breed, And, fowl full fledged come bursting from the sky; The horned cattle, the herds and all the wild Would haunt with varying offspring tilth and waste; Nor would the same fruits keep their olden trees, But each might grow from any stock or limb By chance and change. Indeed, and were there not For each its procreant atoms, could things have ...

— Of The Nature of Things • [Titus Lucretius Carus] Lucretius

Words linked to "Tilth" : condition, soil, land, fallow, ground, status