单词 | tillage |
释义 | tillagen. 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. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1488 |
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