Tillage
King James Dictionary [1]
TILL'AGE, n. The operation, practice or art of preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground free from weeds which might impede the growth of crops. Tillage includes manuring, plowing, harrowing and rolling land, or whatever is done to bring it to a proper state to receive the seed, and the operations of plowing, harrowing and hoeing the ground, to destroy weeds and loosen the soil after it is planted culture a principal branch of agriculture. Tillage of the earth is the principal as it was the first occupation of man, and no employment is more honorable.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.
(2): ( n.) The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
(prop. עִבִוֹדָה , Abodah, 1 Chronicles 27:26; Nehemiah 10:37, Work, i.e. "service" or "bondage," as elsewhere rendered; so occasionally עָבִד , to "till," "tilleth," "tiller," etc., lit. worker; but ניר , Nir, Proverbs 13:23, means Fallow Ground, as elsewhere rendered). (See Agriculture).
