tilth
IPA: tˈɪɫθ
noun
- Agricultural labour; husbandry.
- The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
- Cultivated land
- Rich cultivated soil.
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Examples of "tilth" in Sentences
- “Your women are a tilth for you (to cultivate) so go to your tilth as ye will” (2:223)
- Heavier soils can be dug when it's dry so frost action will help break clods to a tilth.
- One horticultural dictionary defines "tilth" as the fine crumbly surface layer of soil produced by tilling.
- These are the fair virgin streams of Nile, the river that waters Egypt's tilth, fed by pure melting snow instead of rain from heaven.
- Bermed beds with incredible soil tilth and free labor in the way of unpaid students to plant and weed make the plantings here lush and healthy.
- Earth had gathered in the cavity of its head and, as I eased it out, a fine tilth of dried soil emptied onto my palm, like sand running through an egg timer.
- Rake it all over to a good 'tilth' (gardening-speak for well-mixed, crumbly soil that allows room for plants to expand and grow and get the air they need) and you're ready to go.
- Six and a half thousand years ago, as the sea receded, the marsh silted up with a rich tilth and became, in slow succession, a freshwater reed swamp, then a wet fen woodland, and then a raised bog.
- Your homemade compost will promote soil structure, help to maintain soil moisture, moderate soil temperature, improve soil tilth, balance your soil's pH level so that nutrients are released slowly to plants and provide a food source for soil organisms.
- After the beginning of March, you shall beginne to sow your Barley vpon that ground which the yéere before did lye fallow, and is commonly called your tilth, or fallow field: and if any part of it consist of stiffe and tough ground, then you shall, vpon such ground, sow your
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