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TILLING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cultivation of the land in order to raise crops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("tilling" is a kind of...):

cultivation ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tilling"):

ploughing; plowing (tilling the land with a plow)

Holonyms ("tilling" is a part of...):

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Derivation:

till (work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb till

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