1. Cultivation of land to prepare it for sowing or planting
   "Spring tilling prepared the fields for the new crop"

1. (farming) work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
   "till the soil"

Derived forms: tillings

Type of: cultivation, process, work, work on

Part of: agriculture, farming, husbandry

Encyclopedia: Tilling, Thomas