tilthとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /tɪlθ/
• 韻: -ɪlθ

名詞

tilth (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tilths)

1. Agricultural labour; husbandry.
2. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.

   The land is in good tilth and ready to plant.

3. Cultivated land
   • 1945, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, HarperCollins, published 2019, →ISBN, page 11:

     Escaped from thicket and from fen at last he saw the tilth of men.

4. Rich cultivated soil.
   • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 333:

     One morning she was kneeling on an old grain sack on the wet black soil, turning the thick rich tilth over and smoothing it ready for the new lettuces.

派生語

関連する語

• till
• tillage