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UNTILLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does untilled mean?
• UNTILLED (adjective)
The adjective UNTILLED has 1 sense:
1. not plowed or harrowed or hoed
Familiarity information: UNTILLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not plowed or harrowed or hoed
Context example:
untilled land
Similar:
unbroken; unploughed; unplowed ((of farmland) not plowed)
Context examples
As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West, and the ground was untilled.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
There were no fences at all by the roadside now, and the land was rough and untilled.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
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