tilth
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /tɪlθ/
tilth
- Agricultural labour; husbandry.
- The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
- The land is in good tilth and ready to plant.
- Rich cultivated soil.
- 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 333:
- One morning she was kneeling on an old grain sack on the wet black soil, turning the thick rich tilth over and smoothing it ready for the new lettuces.
- 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 333:
- French: ameublissement
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