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Noun: tillage  ti-lij
  1. The cultivation of soil for raising crops
    "Modern tillage practices aim to minimize soil erosion"
     
  2. 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