Crossword clues for tilth
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tilth \Tilth\, n. [AS. til?, fr. tilian to till. See Till to cultivate.]
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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.
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That which is tilled; tillage ground. [R.]
And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the mother city.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture. 2 Rich cultivated soil.
WordNet
n. the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops [syn: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage]
Wikipedia
Soil tilth is its physical condition, especially in relation to its suitability for planting or growing a crop. Factors that determine tilth include the formation and stability of aggregated soil particles, moisture content, degree of aeration, rate of water infiltration and drainage. Tilth can change rapidly, depending on environmental factors such as changes in moisture, tillage and soil amendments.
Soil with good tilth has large pore spaces for air infiltration and water movement. Roots only grow where the soil tilth allows for adequate levels of soil oxygen. Such soil also holds a reasonable supply of water and nutrients.
Tillage, organic matter amendments, fertilization and irrigation can each improve tilth, but when used excessively, can have the opposite effect. Crop rotation and cover crops can positively impact tilth. A combined approach can produce the greatest improvement.
Usage examples of "tilth".
Duchess Flourish of Tilth, the minstrel announced a moment later, and her consort, Duke Jower.
It served to unite the Six Duchies, for with him he brought the nobility of Tilth and Farrow.
Duke of Tilth arming runaway Chalcedean slaves and teaching them military tactics to Kettricken being called on to mediate between Lord Carolsin of Ashlake, who claimed that Lord Dignity of Timbery had seduced and stolen his daughter.
To demand that Farrow or Tilth cease executing people for the Wit is like demanding that Shoaks cease all harassment along their border with Chalced.
This was when a young man from Tilth inadvertently gave the Queen a great advantage.
My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- A grave good-morrow to your Graces, all, Fair tilth and fruitful seasons!
Thus, without tilth, I house a wondrous yield, And heap my heart with quintuple crops concealed.
There were no fences or hedgerows, but irrigation canals rising slightly above the tilth ran at fifty-meter intervals down the length of the field.
A man could lose his strip for poor tilth, and Tarn had come close enough, often enough.
Flowers, perhaps, at all events those of tilth and pasture, will have been all but improved away.
Far on every side stretches a homely landscape, tilth and pasture, hedgerow and clustered trees, to where the sky rests upon the gentle hills.
Along the stretch of the hollow the land was parcelled into meadows and tilth of varied hue.
Vineyard, or tilth where lies his husbandry, Fireflies innumerable sparkle: so to me, Come where its mighty depth unfolded, straight With flames no fewer seemed to scintillate The shades of the eighth pit.
Casks of brandy from Shoaks, a bale of ermine skins from the Mountain Kingdom, and colored glass beads from Tilth, wrought into a tapestry that could be hung over a window.
Return the corn to the earth, bury it, then, when the plowman turned the furrow in the spring, the tilth would come up rich and dark against the shear, a fertile soil willing to bear generously for whatever hand was put to the harrow.