Meaning & use
tilled
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Prepared and cultivated land for growing crops by plowing or turning the soil (past tense of till).
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The farmer tilled the field before planting the spring wheat.
Generations of his family had tilled this same soil.
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One of the oldest agricultural terms in English, referring to the basic act of preparing soil.
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