TILLED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tilled mean? 

• TILLED (adjective)
  The adjective TILLED has 1 sense:

1. turned or stirred by plowing or harrowing or hoeing

  Familiarity information: TILLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TILLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turned or stirred by plowing or harrowing or hoeing

Context example:

tilled land ready for seed

Similar:

ploughed; plowed ((of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow)

 Context examples 

The frozen particles of ice, brushed from the blades of grass by the wind, and borne across my face; the hard clatter of the horse's hoofs, beating a tune upon the ground; the stiff-tilled soil; the snowdrift, lightly eddying in the chalk-pit as the breeze ruffled it; the smoking team with the waggon of old hay, stopping to breathe on the hill-top, and shaking their bells musically; the whitened slopes and sweeps of Down-land lying against the dark sky, as if they were drawn on a huge slate!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)