tillable
IPA: tˈɪɫʌbʌɫ
adjective
- (of land) able to be tilled or ploughed; arable
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Examples of "tillable" in Sentences
- For the tillable parts, he figures he paid about $6,000 an acre.
- About 5,000 of his 9,850 tillable acres are affected by the spillway, he said.
- The war took its toll destroying an estimated 17% of tillable land, including open fields, olive, date, and other fruit orchards.
- Before bidding on that Michigan farm last summer, he visited five times to walk the property, which includes a house and land for commercial development as well as tillable fields.
- It is exceptionally dry, and so a distinguishing architectural feature is meticulous dry stone walls that shore up streets, buildings, and the steep terraces that make practically every bit of land tillable.
- In the entire land, it is hard to find tillable land that is not already tilled; only sandy fields or stony hills, suitable at best for planting trees or vines and, even that after considerable work and expense in clearing and preparing them - only these remain unworked.
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