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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Tilth

/tĭlth/ · IPA /tɪlθ/
01 n. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth.
  1. 1.
    The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth.
    “The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth.” De Quincey.
  2. 2.
    That which is tilled; tillage ground.[R.]
    “And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the mother city.” Tennyson.