esp. Labour or work in the cultivation of the soil; tillage, agricultural work, husbandry. (In full in Old English eorþtilþ.)

The business or occupation of a husbandman or farmer; agriculture, cultivation; (deployment of) farming methods and techniques.

(a) Originally: the theory or practice of cultivating the soil to produce crops; an instance of this (now rare). (b) Later also (now chiefly): the…

The act, operation, or art of tilling or cultivating land so as to fit it for raising crops; cultivation, agriculture, husbandry.

Tilth, tillage, agriculture.

The action or business of cultivating crops, raising livestock, etc.

(See quot. 1670.)

Farming, agriculture; the business or practice of growing crops, rearing livestock, etc. Now rare.

= agriculture, n.

= agriculture, n.