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tilths

tilths is the plural of tilth.

Meaning of tilth

Noun

tilth (countable and uncountable, plural tilths)

  1. Agricultural labour; husbandry.
  2. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
    • The land is in good tilth and ready to plant.
  3. Cultivated land
    • 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
  4. Rich cultivated soil.
    • 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

Questions about tilths

What is tilths the plural of?
Tilths is the plural of tilth.

Words near tilths in the dictionary

  1. tiltest
  2. tilteth
  3. tilth
  4. tilther
  5. tilthers
  6. tilths
  7. tilting
  8. tilting at windmills
  9. tiltings
  10. tiltlike
  11. tiltmeter

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