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Tillable. World English Historical Dictionary

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Tillable. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Tillable a. [f. TILL v.1 + -ABLE.] Capable of being tilled or cultivated; usually, capable of being ploughed, arable.

1 1573.  Northbrooke, Poore Mans Gard., To Rdr. The Earth then remained to man as a thing tillable.

2 1610.  W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, I. x. 26. Wee found it scarce tillable with a strong Teeme of Oxen.

3 1784.  J. Twamley, Dairying Exempl., 22. The greater number of Dairys are on Tillable or Arable Farms.

4 1810.  G. Chalmers, Caledonia, II. II. vii. 135. The most common divisions of tillable lands were carucates, or plough lands, and bovates, or oxgangs.

5 1868.  Treaty betw. U.S. & Cheyenne & Arapahoe, Art. III. p. 4. If it should appear from actual survey or other examination of said tract of land, that it contains less than one hundred and sixty acres of tillable land for each person, [etc.].

6 1893.  J. W. Hoff, 200 Miles on Delaware River, 125. The cultivated and tillable soil … in this region is formed from decayed rock.

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