Synonyms for tillage
ˈtɪl ɪdʒtillage

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1. tillage

   Agriculture is the generic term, including at once the science, the art, and the process of supplying human wants by raising the products of the soil, and by the associated industries; farming is the practise of agriculture as a business; there may be theoretical agriculture, but not theoretical farming; we speak of the science of agriculture, the business of farming; scientific agriculture may be wholly in books; scientific farming is practised upon the land; we say an agricultural college rather than a college of farming. Farming refers to the cultivation of considerable portions of land, and the raising of the coarser crops; gardening is the close cultivation of a small area for small fruits, flowers, vegetables, etc., and while it may be done upon a farm is yet a distinct industry. Gardening in general, kitchen-gardening, the cultivation of vegetables, etc., for the household, market-gardening, the raising of the same for sale, floriculture, the culture of flowers, and horticulture, the culture of fruits, flowers, or vegetables, are all departments of agriculture, but not strictly nor ordinarily of farming; farming is itself one department of agriculture. Husbandry is a general word for any form of practical agriculture, but is now chiefly poetical. Tillage refers directly to the work bestowed upon the land, as plowing, manuring, etc.; cultivation refers especially to the processes that bring forward the crop; we speak of the tillage of the soil, the cultivation of corn; we also speak of land as in a state of cultivation, under cultivation, etc. Culture is now applied to the careful development of any product to a state of perfection, especially by care through successive generations; the choice varieties of the strawberry have been produced by wise and patient culture; a good crop in any year is the result of good cultivation.

   Synonyms:
   agriculture, cultivation, culture, farming, floriculture, gardening, horticulture, husbandry, kitchen-gardening, market-gardening

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1. cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilthnoun

   arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

   Synonyms:
   ploughland, tilled land, cultivated land, tilth, farming area, farmland, plowland

2. tillagenoun

   the cultivation of soil for raising crops

   Synonyms:
   cultivated land, ploughland, plowland, tilled land, tilth, farmland

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1. • Culture

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1. tillagenoun

   Synonyms:
   culture (of land), cultivation, husbandry, agriculture, farming, geoponics

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1. List of paraphrases for "tillage":

   ploughing, no-till, cultivation

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1. Rob Colby:

   This year there probably won't be much fall tillage done, which will delay progress into next spring even. So the lasting effects of this year are going to be probably two years until we're fully recovered.

2. J. W. Alexander:

   There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

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