tilth

English

Etymology

From Middle English tilthe, from Old English tilþ, tilþe, corresponding to till +‎ -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪlθ/
• Rhymes: -ɪlθ

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Noun

tilth (countable and uncountable, plural tilths)

1. Agricultural labour; husbandry.
2. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.

   The land is in good tilth and ready to plant.

3. 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.

Related terms

• till
• tillage

Translations

agricultural labour; husbandry

• Bulgarian: земеделие (bg) n (zemedelie)
• Hungarian: földművelés (hu), művelés (hu), megművelés (hu), talajlazítás, talajporhanyítás, talajjavítás (hu)

the state of being tilled

• Bulgarian: разораване n (razoravane)
• French: ameublissement (fr)
• Georgian: ხნული (xnuli), ნახნავი (naxnavi)
• Hungarian: porhanyósság, lazultság
• Russian: обрабо́тка по́чвы (obrabótka póčvy)

rich, cultivated soil

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Middle English

Noun

tilth

1. Alternative form of tilthe