tillable

[ til-uh-buhl ]
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adjective
  1. able to be tilled; arable.

Origin of tillable

1
First recorded in 1565–75; till2 + -able

Other words from tillable

  • non·till·a·ble, adjective
  • un·till·a·ble, adjective

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How to use tillable in a sentence

  • The juncture was in a big, marshy, untillable flat, from which hills rose abruptly.

    Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington Kelland
  • Paucity of arable land in mountain regions leads to the utilization of the untillable slopes for stock grazing.

    Influences of Geographic Environment | Ellen Churchill Semple
  • Let us see to it that the untillable hills shall ever bear these matchless forests, emerald settings for our snow-peaks.

    The Guardians of the Columbia | John H. (John Harvey) Williams