tilth Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
  2. noun arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
    cultivated land; farmland; tilled land; ploughland; plowland; tillage.

WordNet

Tilth noun
Etymology
AS. til, fr. tilian to till. See Till to cultivate.
Definitions
  1. 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. De Quincey.
  2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. R.
    And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the mother city. Tennyson.

Webster 1913