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Tillable   Listen
adjective
Tillable  adj.  Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tillable" Quotes from Famous Books



... thrown from the plantations and those discharged by the Atchafalayah and the Plaquemine, which ultimately find their way to the Gulf through Berwick's Bay. They are interspersed with small islands: these have narrow strips of tillable land, but are generally too low for cultivation; and when the Mississippi is at flood, they are all under water, and most of them many feet. The La Fourche goes immediately to the Gulf, between Lake Barataria and these lakes, affording land high enough, when protected ...
— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks

... buildings are found perched upon ledges in the stupendous cliffs. In some instances the mouths of caves have been walled in, and the evidences all point to a race for ever dreading and fortifying itself against an invader. Why did these people chose their embattlements so far away from all tillable land and sources of subsistence? Major Powell suggests this solution of the problem: For a century or two after the settlement of Mexico many expeditions were sent into the country now comprised in Arizona and New Mexico for the purpose of ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various

... and the disadvantages of each system, there are times, places, and circumstances under which one is more advisable than the other. On lands rich in humus and in plant food and level so as to be easily tillable, cultivation is without doubt the best system. But it should be practiced in connection with cover crops, and the orchard should be given occasional periods of rest in sod—say one year in from ...
— Apple Growing • M. C. Burritt



Words linked to "Tillable" :   cultivatable, arable, cultivable



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