Definition of "tilled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of till. (verb)
• Ploughed or cultivated (adjective)

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• ""the Acres," as the men of that time always called tilled land; and beyond that was the meadow going fair and smooth, though with here and there a rising in it, down to the lips of the stony waste of the winter river."
• "Through the shallow wavelets he ran, stepping high and delicately splashing merry drops against the morning sunlight, leaped over one or two that would have "tilled" him to the knee (to use an old boyish phrase learnt at Carwithiel where he had learnt to swim), and came to the shelf beyond which the first tall comber boomed towards him, more than head high, hissing along its ridge."
• "When the ground was to be "tilled," and "flocks" to be herded, whom did God employ?"