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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tilth  \Tilth\,  n.  [AS.  til?,  fr  tilian  to  till.  See  {Till}  to 
  cultivate.] 
  1.  The  state  of  being  tilled,  or  prepared  for  a  crop; 
  culture;  as  land  is  good  tilth. 
 
  The  tilth  and  rank  fertility  of  its  golden  youth. 
  --De  Quincey. 
 
  2.  That  which  is  tilled;  tillage  ground.  [R.] 
 
  And  so  by  tilth  and  grange  .  .  .  We  gained  the 
  mother  city.  --Tennyson. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tilth 
  n  1:  the  state  of  aggregation  of  soil  and  its  condition  for 
  supporting  plant  growth 
  2:  land  that  is  worked  by  plowing  and  sowing  and  raising  crops 
  [syn:  {cultivated  land},  {tilled  land},  {tillage}] 




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