tillage

Meaning

  1. The cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.
  2. Land cultivated in this way.
  3. The act or process of soil disturbance as a part of farming; especially, types of disturbance requiring draft animals or machinery for power.

Hyphenated as
till‧age
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtɪlɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English tillage; by surface analysis, till + -age.

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