tilledadj.
/tɪld/ Of land: see till v.1 4.
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wroughtOE
subact?1440
laboured1470
tilled1546
well-cultured1555
well-laboured1571
husbanded1578
toiled1578
well-husbanded1581
cultive1611
improved1617
cultivated1622
well-cultivated1650
manured1746
well-farmed1770
reduced1794
farmed1800
tillaged1854
tilthed1866
tame1887
1546 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 10 Exceptis terris aratis vulgariter telitland.
a1595 Descr. Isles Scotl. in W. Skene Celtic Scotl. (1880) III. App. iii. 435 The teillit earth.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry i. 4 When Roots are in a Till'd Soil.
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxiii. 95 In that thickly peopled and carefully tilled region.
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