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tillable, a.|ˈtɪləb(ə)l|
[f. till v.1 + -able.]
Capable of being tilled or cultivated; usually, capable of being ploughed, arable.
1573J. Northbrooke Poore Mans Gard. To Rdr., The Earth then remained to man as a thing tillable. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 26 Wee found it scarce tillable with a strong Teeme of Oxen. 1784Twamley Dairying 22 The greater number of Dairys are on Tillable or Arable Farms. 1810G. Chalmers Caledonia II. ii. vii. 135 The most common divisions of tillable lands were carucates, or plough lands, and bovates, or oxgangs. 1893J. W. Hoff 200 Miles on Delaware River 125 The cultivated and tillable soil..in this region is formed from decayed rock. |