Definition of Tillage

Babylon English
tillage
n. working of land; cultivated land

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Tillage Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Tillage
(n.)
The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.
  
(n.)
A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.
  

WordNet 2.0
tillage

Noun
1. arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
(synonym) cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tilth
(hypernym) land, ground, soil
(hyponym) fallow
(derivation) till
2. the cultivation of soil for raising crops
(hypernym) culture
(derivation) till

hEnglish - advanced version
tillage

tillage
\till"age\ (?), n.
1. the operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.
2. a place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.


Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
tillage
land: ithir
act: saothrughadh, cuireadóireacht

JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Amaethiaeth
Amaethiaeth = n. tillage

Aradiad
Aradiad = n. tillage

Cywyll
Cywyll = n. culture, tillage

Hwsmonaeth
Hwsmonaeth = husbandry tillage

Llafur
Llafur = n. labour; tillage


Tillage Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries

EPA Terms of Environment
Tillage
Plowing, seedbed preparation, and cultivation practices.

Environmental Engineering (English ver.)
TILLAGE
Plowing, seedbed preparation, and cultivation practices.


Tillage Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries

Agricultural Glossary/yigini2004
Tillage
The mechanical manipulation of soil for any purpose but usually to modify the soil physical characteristics to promote crop growth.


Tillage Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Tillage
Tillage, or cultivation (a term which also has broader meanings related to the raising of plants in general) is the agricultural preparation of the soil by digging it up. Tillage can also mean the land that is tilled.

Primary tillage loosens the soil and mixes in fertilizer and/or plant material, resulting in soil with a rough texture. Secondary tillage produces finer soil and sometimes shapes the rows. It can be done by a using various combinations of equipment: plough, disk plough, harrowdibblehoeshovelrotary tillerssubsoiler, ridge or bed forming tillers, roller.


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