Definition of "tilth"

tilth

/tɪlθ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural tilths
1. Agricultural labour; husbandry.
2. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
3. Cultivated land
  Quotations
  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, page 11
4. Rich cultivated soil.
  Quotations
  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