What does tillage mean?

Definitions for tillage
ˈtɪl ɪdʒtillage

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilthnoun

    arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

  2. tillagenoun

    the cultivation of soil for raising crops

Wiktionary

  1. tillagenoun

    the cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops

  2. tillagenoun

    land that has been so cultivated

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tillagenoun

    Husbandry; the act or practice of plowing or culture.

    Etymology: from till.

    Tillage will enable the kingdom for corn for the natives, and to spare for exportation. Francis Bacon.

    A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought
    First-fruits, the green ear, and the yellow sheaf. John Milton.

    Incite them to improve the tillage of their country, to recover the bad soil, and to remedy the waste. John Milton.

    Bid the laborious hind,
    Whose harden’d hands did long in tillage toil,
    Neglect the promis’d harvest of the soil. Dryden.

    That there was tillage Moses intimates; but whether bestowed on all, or only upon some parts of that earth, as also what sort of tillage that was, is not expressed. John Woodward.

ChatGPT

  1. tillage

    Tillage is the agricultural practice of preparing the soil for planting by mechanically manipulating it. This process can involve digging, stirring, and overturning the soil, which helps in mixing organic matter into the soil, breaking up compacted soil, controlling weeds, and making a proper seed bed for planting.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tillagenoun

    the operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops

  2. Tillagenoun

    a place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land

Wikidata

  1. Tillage

    Tillage is the agricultural preparation of the soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Examples of human-powered tilling methods using hand tools include shovelling, picking, mattock work, hoeing, and raking. Examples of draft-animal-powered or mechanized work include ploughing, rototilling, rolling with cultipackers or other rollers, harrowing, and cultivating with cultivator shanks. Small-scale gardening and farming, for household food production or small business production, tends to use the smaller-scale methods above, whereas medium- to large-scale farming tends to use the larger-scale methods. There is a fluid continuum, however. Any type of gardening or farming, but especially larger-scale commercial types, may also use low-till or no-till methods as well. Tillage is often classified into two types, primary and secondary. There is no strict boundary between them so much as a loose distinction between tillage that is deeper and more thorough and tillage that is shallower and sometimes more selective of location. Primary tillage such as ploughing tends to produce a rough surface finish, whereas secondary tillage tends to produce a smoother surface finish, such as that required to make a good seedbed for many crops. Harrowing and rototilling often combine primary and secondary tillage into one operation.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TILLAGE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tillage is ranked #123796 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Tillage surname appeared 139 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tillage.

    61.8% or 86 total occurrences were Black.
    30.9% or 43 total occurrences were White.
    5.7% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tillage in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tillage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of tillage in a Sentence

  1. J. W. Alexander:

    There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

  2. Rob Colby:

    This year there probably won't be much fall tillage done, which will delay progress into next spring even. So the lasting effects of this year are going to be probably two years until we're fully recovered.

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