Crossword clues for tilling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Till \Till\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilling.] [OE. tilen, tilien, AS. tilian, teolian, to aim, strive for, till; akin to OS. tilian to get, D. telen to propagate, G. zielen to aim, ziel an end, object, and perhaps also to E. tide, time, from the idea of something fixed or definite. Cf. Teal, Till, prep..]
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To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm.
No field nolde [would not] tilye.
--P. Plowman.the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
--Gen. iii. 23. To prepare; to get. [Obs.]
--W. Browne.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of till English)
WordNet
n. cultivation of the land in order to raise crops
Wikipedia
TILLING (Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes) is a method in molecular biology that allows directed identification of mutations in a specific gene. TILLING was introduced in 2000, using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. TILLING has since been used as a reverse genetics method in other organisms such as zebrafish, corn, wheat, rice, soybean, tomato and lettuce.
Tilling is a fictional coastal town, based on Rye, East Sussex, in the Mapp and Lucia novels of Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940).
Tilling can mean:
- Tillage, an agricultural preparation of the soil.
- TILLING (molecular biology)
- Tilling is a fictional town in the Mapp and Lucia novels of E. F. Benson.
- Tilling Green, Ledshire, is a fictional village in Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver novel, Poison in the Pen.
- The Tilling Group, once a major British bus company and later a conglomerate.
- Thomas Tilling was Cockney rhyming slang for a shilling.
- People with the surname Tilling
- Roger Tilling, a British broadcaster
- Thomas Tilling, founder of the Tilling Group
Usage examples of "tilling".
When I note how few Catholics are engaged in honestly tilling the honest soil, and how many Catholics are engaged in the liquor traffic, I cannot talk buncombe to anybody.
The Moms is in the backyard garden, tilling the infamously flinty New England soil with a rented Rototiller.
Macurdies had been farmers for generations, and Curtis Macurdy would have been content to spend his life with his exotically beautiful wife Varia, earning a living by tilling his plot of land in the American Midwest.
It seems that this work was but a small portion of an extensive Cyclopedia of Agriculture in use in China, where the science of tilling the soil has in many respects been developed to an astonishing degree of perfection.
Therefore what I plan to do is to settle my men in Italian Gaul, but on the far side of the Padus, where there are tremendous expanses of good tilling soil and rich pastures at present in the hands of Gauls.
Now he saw a row of houses, a twenty-square-meter construction with multiple protrusions that went underground to harvest the subterranean water systems for irrigation purposes, and small robots that were tilling the newly created soil under the watchful eyes of a group of Bajorans, most of whom were former terrorists.
Scythians travelling in their caravans, the Egyptians tilling their fields, the Phnicians merchandising, the Cilicians robbing and plundering, the Spartans flogging their children, and the Athenians perpetually quarrelling and going to law with one another.
Getæ at war, the Scythians travelling in their caravans, the Egyptians tilling their fields, the Phnicians merchandising, the Cilicians robbing and plundering, the Spartans flogging their children, and the Athenians perpetually quarrelling and going to law with one another.
Now she sat sucking quietly while all around her in the dark the chirps and whirs resumed, and with them the tiny tillings and killings.
Early farmers would have discovered by trial and error that they could obtain higher yields by tilling and watering the soil and then sowing seeds.