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▪ I. tilling, vbl. n.|ˈtɪlɪŋ|
[f. till v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of till v.1; work done upon land for raising crops; cultivation, tillage.
a1225Ancr. R. 296 Þe winȝeardes..þet mot muche tilunge to uorte beren windberien. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiv. 63 Fourty wynter folke lyued with-outen tulyinge. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 281 Konnynge of telienge [v. rr. tellynge, tillyng] of feeldes þey cleped Cereres. 1475Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 70 In tilieng, ering, and labourage of his londis to bere corne and fruit. a1610Healey Theophrastus (1636) 12 The well tilling and husbanding of the ground. 1678Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. xix. §9 (1699) 101 The stealers of Pleugh-graith..in the time of Teiling..are to be punished to the death. 1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4703/2 A Bill..for encouraging the Tilling of Land with Bullocks. 1817W. Selwyn Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1206 Whether the land is of such a nature as to require an extraordinary expence in manuring or tilling.
fig.1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 271 b/1 Lyke a tylyer of Ihesu cryst he prouffyted in spyrytuel tylyeng. 1640H. Woodward (title) A Childes Patrimony laid out upon the good culture or tilling over his whole man.
†b. concr. The produce of tilling; a crop: = tillage 2 b. Obs. rare.
1680J. Goodyear in Hereford Dioc. Reg. 4 Oct., Wanting ropes in the time of Harvest to carry in his tilling with.
c. attrib., as tilling land, land fit for tilling, arable land.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 89 But now wodes beþ i-hewe adoun and newe telynge lond i-made. 1488Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 494 Parte of the tyllyng land.
▪ II. ˈtilling, ppl. a.
[f. till v.1 + -ing2.]
That tills or cultivates land.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 319 Þe first was an heerde, and þe toþer a tiliyng man. 1906Daily Chron. 15 Sept. 3/1 Nor spurn my muse because it sings..Of tilling men who plough and reap. |