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noun cultivation of the land in order to raise crops
verb work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
originFrom Middle English tillynge, tiliyng, tilyenge, tylynge, from Old English tiliende, tilġende, equivalent to till + -ing.
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