Noun: tilth
| Singular | tilth |
| Plural | tilths |
Sample Sentences
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The land is in good tilth and ready to plant.
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Escaped from thicket and from fen at last he saw the tilth of men. [1945, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, HarperCollins, published 2019, →ISBN, page 11:]
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One morning she was kneeling on an old grain sack on the wet black soil, turning the thick rich tilth over and smoothing it ready for the new lettuces. [1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 333:]
Nouns inflected like tilth
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English tilthe, from Old English tilþ, tilþe, corresponding to till + -th (abstract nominal suffix). See: Middle English Nouns '
tilthe', Old English Nouns '
tilþ'.
Verbs referencing "tilth"
Dutch Nouns
teelt.