Synonyms:
tillage
Meaning: the cultivation of soil for raising crops
Synonyms:
cultivated_land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled_land, tillage, tilth
Meaning: arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
Usage examples
Tillage gave way to pasturage, another cause of depopulation, even among slaves.
I hold that the more arid and unreclaimed the soil where the Christian labourer's task of tillage is appointed him--the scantier the meed his toil brings--the higher the honour.
The practice of agriculture was undergoing a transformation; in all directions grazing was being substituted for tillage, and the number of agricultural labourers was greatly reduced by the change.
Then a slice of our neighbours' land will be wanted by us for pasture and tillage, and they will want a slice of ours, if, like ourselves, they exceed the limit of necessity, and give themselves up to the unlimited accumulation of wealth?