Noun: tillage ti-lij
- The cultivation of soil for raising crops
"Modern tillage practices aim to minimize soil erosion"
- Arable land that is worked by ploughing and sowing and raising crops
"The farmer surveyed his tillage before planting season";
- cultivated land, farmland, plowland [US], ploughland [Brit, Cdn], tilled land, tilth, arable, cropland, arable land
Derived forms: tillages
Type of: culture, ground, land, soil
Encyclopedia: Tillage