Tilled
[tild]
Definition
(adj.) turned or stirred by plowing or harrowing or hoeing; 'tilled land ready for seed' .
Checked by Emil--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Till
Typist: Merritt
Examples
- The man who had discovered that it could be tilled died of the labour; the man who succeeded him in possession ruined himself in fertilizing it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The attitude of the common people who tilled the fields and herded the beasts towards the temple would remain simple and credulous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While my father carried on the manufacture of leather and worked at the trade himself, he owned and tilled considerable land. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I saw common men, there--men who were neither priests nor princes--who yet absolutely owned the land they tilled. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Merritt