'Tilth' definitions:

Definition of 'tilth'

noun

The state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth

noun

Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops [syn: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth]

From: GCIDE

Tilth \Tilth\, n. [AS. til?, fr. tilian to till. See Till to cultivate.]
1. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth. [1913 Webster]
The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. [R.] [1913 Webster]
And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the mother city. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]