tillage
/ˈtɪlɪdʒ/
noun
- The act of preparing land for growing crops by plowing, harrowing, or similar methods.
- Modern tillage methods help prevent soil erosion.
- The farmer spent the week doing tillage before planting season.
- No-till farming reduces the need for mechanical tillage.
- Land that has been or is being cultivated.
- They bought a large area of tillage for growing corn.
- The tillage stretched for miles across the plain.
- The old pasture was converted into productive tillage.
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