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单词 tillage
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tillagen.

Brit. /ˈtɪlɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈtɪlɪdʒ/
Forms: Also 1500s tilladge, 1500s–1600s tyllage, 1600s tilage, tilledge.
Etymology: < till v.1 + -age suffix.
1.
a. The act, operation, or art of tilling or cultivating land so as to fit it for raising crops; cultivation, agriculture, husbandry.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > [noun]
tiltha1100
husbandrya1398
agriculture?1440
tillagea1538
tilture1573
farming1642
gainery1670
farmery1759
terraculture1847
ag1905
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 65 Mesemyth ther ys a grete faute in tyllage of the ground.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. xviii. 555 Barley asketh the greatest tillage of all graines.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 137 Pease and Beans belong to Garden-Tillage, as well as that of the Field.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 166 There is no Danger in giving the Trees a good Tillage, that is to say, in breaking up the Ground pretty deep.
1735 G. Berkeley Querist §85 If all the land were tilled that is fit for tillage.
1833 H. 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > state of being cultivated
husbandry1398
tillage1488
tilth1488
culturea1538
tessel1657
1488–9 Act 4 Hen. VII c. 19 xx. acres of lond..lyeng in tillage or husbondrie.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng ii. f. 2 It is at the lordes pleasure wheder they shall lye to pasture or to tyllage.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxviiiv As moch lande kept in tyllage.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 37 There is much waste Land,..although for the most part..it may be reduced into Tillage, and become very fruitful.
1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 33 When land has been long in tillage.
1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl iii They have bought ten acres of wild land..; they are getting it into tillage.
c. figurative. The culture of the mind or spirit.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [noun] > cultivation of the mind
tiltha1250
culture?1510
tillage1555
cultivation1622
culturalization1918
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Ded. sig. diiijv If I shal perceaue the fruites of this my tyllage to be delectable.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 50 The true medicine and tillage of the soule whereby all vertue is taught vs.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 472 We do also esteem that Country most miserable, that doth neglect the proper Tillage, and Education of Children.
1878 T. L. Cuyler Pointed Papers 185 He needs the tillage of prayer and Bible-study.
d. figurative. Sexual intercourse (with a woman). poetic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > specifically with a woman
womenOE
wivingc1300
leap1607
tillage1609
cuntc1664
rogering1788
cock1895
rooting1922
trim1955
coozea1968
stank1980
coochie1986
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets iii. sig. Bv For where is she so faire whose vn-eard wombe Disdaines the tillage of thy husbandry? View more context for this quotation
1918 E. Pound Pavannes & Divisions 41 Some men will live as prudes in their own village And make the tour abroad for their wild tillage.
2. concrete. Tilled or ploughed land; land under crops as distinct from pasturage; the crops growing on tilled land.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land
earthlandeOE
falloweOE
acreOE
hide and gaine1347
furrowc1380
teamlanda1387
tilthc1460
arablec1475
tilling land1488
flat1513
plough-tilth1516
ploughland1530
tillage1543
plough-ground1551
teamware1567
ploughing ground1625
ploughing land1674
prairie-breaking1845
plough1859
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun]
wastumc888
tiltha1100
estrea1300
madder-cropc1300
gainage1390
cropa1400
yieldingc1405
emblement1495
burden?1523
increase1535
field-ware1546
gather1555
esplees1598
husbandrya1616
glebe1660
warea1661
récolte1669
tilling1680
tillage1681
stuffa1687
growing1722
bearing1747
raccolta1748
the crops1789
plant1832
raising1857
cropping1861
1543 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 17 §3 Noe persons..shall converte or torne into pasture or tillage anye suche Coppies.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. v. 191 It is also beautified with all the ornaments of nature, as Herbage, Tillage, Pastorage, Fructiferous Trees.
1649 tr. Alcoran 228 Will ye forsake eternall riches..to put your trust in your gardens, your fountains, your tillages, your dates, and fruits?
1681 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 3) viii. §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.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 108 Lands..with all sorts of Herbage and tillage.
1894 Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough I. 334 The fence..which divided the tillage from the moorland.
figurative.1547 Queen Katherine Parr Lamentacion of Synner sig. F.iiv I praye god all men..may haue grace to becum meete tillage for the fruites of the gospell.1611 Bible (King James) 1 Cor. iii. 9 Ye are Gods husbandry [margin. tillage], ye are Gods building. View more context for this quotation

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.
ΚΠ
1542 in J. H. Glover Kingsthorpiana (1883) 73 xxx acres of tyllage land.
1583 Ld. Burghley Execution of Iustice sig. A.iiiv These..Iesuites..haue as tillage men laboured..to perswade the people.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. x. 43 b Gardens.., tillage grounds and pastures.
1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 7 Tillage-land or Fielden.
1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 40 Tillage Farms are the most profitable to the community.

Derivatives

ˈtillaged adj. /ˈtɪlɪdʒd/ brought under tillage.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cultivated
wroughtOE
subact?1440
laboured1470
tilled1546
well-cultured1555
well-laboured1571
husbanded1578
toiled1578
well-husbanded1581
cultive1611
improved1617
cultivated1622
well-cultivated1650
manured1746
well-farmed1770
reduced1794
farmed1800
tillaged1854
tilthed1866
tame1887
1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 i. 24 The servitude of day labour upon the newly tillaged Fens.
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