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• v  work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
• s  turned or stirred by plowing or harrowing or hoeing
  tilled land ready for seed

• Being a gifted populist artist as well as (his word) a "tittenfilmer," Meyer didn't simply display acres of swollen flesh; he vigorously tilled that fertile field.
• Only when she was sure the ground had been properly tilled did she sell a business off.
• He died as a forgotten footnote, a stooped gardener assigned to the Beijing Botanical Gardens where he tilled the earth that had supported his Qing Dynasty predecessors for nearly .

• till

News & Articles

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• Summer camp cultivates future farmers
  Down on Suzie’s Farm on a recent postcard perfect morning, a tractor tilled rich soil and a patch of towering sunflowers stretched toward an azure sky. A gentle wind rustled through verdant rows chock-full of sweet peas, green scotch kale, eight-ball squash and children — lots of children.
  July 9, 2013 - U-T San Diego
• Eden garden harvests sense of community
  Members of the Eden Gardens Block Club as well as volunteers from Detroit's Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue have diligently tilled, raked and harvested the east side lot aimed at promoting healthier living.
  July 8, 2013 - Detroit News

Quotes

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• Robert Menendez in DetNews.com
  We have tilled the soil, we have planted the seeds, we have watered them, and now it's time for the harvest,Sen. Robert Menendez, DN.J., said of the political benefits Latinos plan to reap.
• Gennady Zyuganov in Reuters
  But I really do not understand how Mr. Medvedev will be able to ask Mr. Putin why the land has not been tilled and the cows are not milked,Zyuganov said, using a typically folksy image.
• David Brion Davis in New York Times
  From the very beginnings,wrote Mr. Davis, "America was part black, and indebted to the appalling sacrifices of millions of individual blacks who cleared the forests and tilled the soil. Yet even the ardent opponents of slaveholding could...