Examples of “tilth” in a Sentence

noun The condition of soil once it has been worked and made ready for planting.

• The land is in good tilth and ready to plant.

noun Land that has been plowed and prepared for growing crops.

• Escaped from thicket and from fen at last he saw the tilth of men. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945)

noun Fertile soil that has been well worked.

• 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. — Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage (1954)