tillage

English

Etymology

From till +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɪlɪd͡ʒ/
Rhymes: -ɪlɪdʒ
Audio (UK) (file)
Hyphenation: till‧age

Noun

tillage (countable and uncountable, plural tillages)

The cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.
Land cultivated in this way.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 13:23:
  Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

Synonyms

tilling

Translations

cultivation of arable land

Bulgarian: оран (bg) f (oran)
Danish: jordbearbejdning c
French: labour (fr) m
Galician: labranza f
German: Bestellung (de) f, Bodenbearbeitung (de) f
Irish: ar m (literary)
Italian: coltivazione (it) f
Latvian: aparšana f
Portuguese: lavoura (pt) f
Romanian: arătură (ro) f, pământ arabil n, pământ cultivat
Russian: земледе́лие (ru) n (zemledélije)
Spanish: labranza (es) f
Turkish: toprağı sürme (tr)

land cultivated in this way

German: bestelltes Land (de) n
Turkish: sürülmüş toprak (tr)

Further reading

tillage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

gallite, tigella

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