tillage

Plural: tillages

Noun

• The preparation of land for growing crops; cultivated land.
• arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
• the cultivation of soil for raising crops
• The cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.
• Land cultivated in this way.
• The act or process of soil disturbance as a part of farming; especially, types of disturbance requiring draft animals or machinery for power.

Examples

• After several turns, the board felt like barren TILLAGE, waiting for a seed of a word.

Synonyms

cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tilled land, tilth, cultivating, cultivation, tilling

Antonyms

no-till, no-tillage

Related Words

carucage