† tilien.
Obsolete.
One who tills or cultivates the soil; a husbandman; = tiller n.1
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun]
tiliec1000
acremanOE
husbanda1300
husbandmanc1384
farmer1528
breeder1547
farmeress1595
colona1640
agricole1656
georgic1703
agricultor1766
Farmer Giles1770
agriculturer1776
agriculturalist1788
culturist1814
fazendeiro1825
bartoner1832
agriculturist1849
culturalist1866
farmerette1901
dry-land farmer1914
drylander1921
Eurofarmer1957
multiplier1969
pick-your-owner1969
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > tiller of soil
delverc888
tillman940
tiliec1000
acremanOE
earth-tilieOE
land-tiliec1275
tillerc1300
earth-tillera1325
diggerc1400
land-herd1490
earth-tilther1495
tilther1495
land-tiller?a1500
manurerc1500
tillsman1561
tilth-man1638
cultivator1661
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. 38 Þa ða tylian [c1160 Hatt. G. tylien] þone sunu gesawun, þa cwædon hig [etc.].
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 133 Alse þe wise teolie þenne he wule sawe nimeð ȝeme of twam þingen, an is hweðer þet lond beo bicumelic to þe sede.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 155 On tilie ferde ut and sew.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 303 Þeos riche ancres þetilieð oðer habbeð rentes isette.
c1325 Chron. Eng. 93 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II Muche folk..That were erthe tilyes gode.
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