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tillage|ˈtɪlɪdʒ|
Also 6 tilladge, 6–7 tyllage, 7 tilage, tilledge.
[f. till v.1 + -age.]
1. a. The act, operation, or art of tilling or cultivating land so as to fit it for raising crops; cultivation, agriculture, husbandry.
1538Starkey England i. iii. 96 Me semyth ther ys a grete faute in tyllage of the ground. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 555 Barley asketh the greatest tillage of all graines. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 137 Pease and Beans belong to Garden-Tillage, as well as that of the Field. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 166 There is no Danger in giving the Trees a good Tillage, that is to say, in breaking up the Ground pretty deep. 1735Berkeley Querist §85 If all the land were tilled that is fit for tillage. 1833H. Martineau Briery Creek iii, The farmer makes his land yield double by good tillage.
b. The state or condition of being tilled or cultivated. in tillage, in or under cultivation.
1488–9Act 4 Hen. VII, c. 19, xx. acres of lond..lyeng in tillage or husbondrie. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 2 It is at the lordes pleasure wheder they shall lye to pasture or to tyllage. 1523― Husb. §123 As moche land kept in tyllage. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 37 There is much waste Land,..although for the most part..it may be reduced into Tillage, and become very fruitful. 1787Winter Syst. Husb. 33 When land has been long in tillage. 1897G. Allen Type-writer Girl iii, They have bought ten acres of wild land..; they are getting it into tillage.
c. fig. The culture of the mind or spirit.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 64 If I shal perceaue the fruites of this my tyllage to be delectable. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 47 The true medicine and tillage of the soule whereby all vertue is taught us. 1683Tryon Way to Health 472 We do also esteem that Country most miserable, that doth neglect the proper Tillage, and Education of Children. 1878T. L. Cuyler Pointed Papers 185 He needs the tillage of prayer and Bible-study.
d. fig. Sexual intercourse (with a woman). poet.
c1600Shakes. Sonnets (1609) sig. B1v, For where is she so faire whose vn-eard wombe Disdaines the tillage of thy husbandry? 1918E. Pound Pavannes & Divisions 41 Some men will live as prudes in their own village And make the tour abroad for their wild tillage.
2. concr. Tilled or ploughed land; land under crops as distinct from pasturage; the crops growing on tilled land.
1543Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 17 §3 Noe persons..shall converte or torne into pasture or tillage anye suche Coppies. 1632Lithgow Trav. v. 191 It is also beautified with all the ornaments of nature, as Herbage, Tillage, Pastorage, Fructiferous Trees. 1649Alcoran 228 Will ye forsake eternall riches..to put your trust in your gardens, your fountains, your tillages, your dates, and fruits? 1681Worlidge Syst. Agric. viii. §3 (ed. 3) 159 Of Beans, Pease, Melons, Cucumbers, Asparagus, Cabbage, and several other sorts of Garden-Tillage..An Acre of ground will yield far more of Tillage than of Corn. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 108 Lands..with all sorts of Herbage and tillage. 1894Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough I. 334 The fence..which divided the tillage from the moorland.
fig.1582Bentley Mon. Matrones 70, I praie God all men..may haue grace to become meete tillage for the fruits of the Gospell. 1611Bible 1 Cor. iii. 9 Ye are Gods husbandry [marg. tillage], ye are Gods building.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1542in J. H. Glover Kingsthorpiana (1883) 73, xxx acres of tyllage land. 1583Exec. for Treason (1675) 5 These..Jesuits..have as Tillage-men, laboured..to perswade the people. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. x. 43 b, Gardens.., tillage grounds and pastures. 1712J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northampt. 7 Tillage-land or Fielden. 1834Brit. Husb. I. 40 Tillage Farms are the most profitable to the community.
Hence ˈtillaged |-ɪdʒd| a., brought under tillage.
1854Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XV. i. 24 The servitude of day labour upon the newly tillaged Fens. |