See Also: tillage(medicine)
tillage(dictionary)
tillage(dictionary)

tillage (iou)



tillage noun. L15.
[from TILL verb1 + -AGE.]
a. The state or condition of being tilled or cultivated. L15.
b. The operation or art of tilling land to prepare it for raising crops; cultivation, agriculture, husbandry. M16.
Tilled or ploughed land; land under crops as opp. to pasturage; crops growing on tilled land. M16.
The improvement and development of the mind or spirit. M16.
Sexual intercourse with a woman. poet. rare. L16.
Shakespeare Sonnets Where is she so fair whose unear'd womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?