tilth noun & verb. [tɪlƟ]
[Old English tilÞ, tilÞe, from tilian TILL verb¹ + -TH¹.]
A. noun.
1. Labour or work in the cultivation of the soil; tillage, agricultural work, husbandry. OE.
b. The condition of being under cultivation or tillage; transf. the condition of land under tillage. L15.
c. An act of tilling; a ploughing or other agricultural operation. M16.

2. The result or produce of tillage; crops, harvest. OE-L18.

3. fig. The cultivation of knowledge, morality, the mind, etc. ME.

4. Land under cultivation, arable land; a piece of tilled land, a ploughed field. ME.
b. The prepared surface soil; the depth of soil dug or cultivated. M18.
b. verb trans. Till, cultivate. Now rare or obsolete. LME.

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