Tillage
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Land cultivation.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A place tilled or cultivated; land under cultivation, as opposed to lands lying fallow or in pasture,
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
Husbandry; the cultivation of the land, particularly by the plow. See Agriculture. That is the meaning in the act of June 3. 1878 (20 St. L. 89), which permits a settler on the public lands to cut timber on his claim in order to prepare the land for tillage. He may not cut timber merely for the purpose of selling it.'