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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tillage \Till"age\, noun
1. The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.
2. A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.
Syn: Cultivation; culture; husbandry; farming; agriculture.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tillage
noun
1: arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops [syn: {cultivated land}, {farmland}, {plowland}, {ploughland}, {tilled land}, {tilth}]
2: the cultivation of soil for raising crops
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