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English Dictionary: tilth by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tilth
n
  1. the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
  2. arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
    Synonym(s): cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
  
                     The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth.
                                                                              --De Quincey.
  
      2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. [R.]
  
                     And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the
                     mother city.                                       --Tennyson.
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