earth-tilthとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɪlθ

名詞

earth-tilth (uncountable)

1. (まれに, archaic or dialectal) Cultivation of the ground; farming; agriculture.
   • 1994, Paul Matthews, With My Heart in My Mouth:

     Dumb-founded Nature You will crown the chorale of our hearts The day you rise - Who give us weight, earth-tilth And tincture - God will fill the opening Of your eyes.

   • 2000, Nancy Varian Berberick, A Child of Elvish - Page 101:

     "That was my mother's father," Grandfather Crey had said. "And he used to say 'feather-heeled' when he meant agile. A horse's fetlock was his 'foot-lock,' and we fanners did not engage in farming, young Joze, we engaged in 'earth-tilth.'