Tillage vs. Ploughing — What's the Difference?

Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Examples of human-powered tilling methods using hand tools include shoveling, picking, mattock work, hoeing, and raking.

A farm implement consisting of a strong blade at the end of a beam, usually hitched to a draft team or motor vehicle and used for breaking up soil and cutting furrows in preparation for sowing.

Cultivation of land.

An implement or machine designed to move earth, snow, or other material by means of a strong blade.

Land that has been tilled.

Plow See Big Dipper.

The cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.

To break and turn over (earth) with a plow.

Land cultivated in this way.

To form (a furrow, for example) with a plow.

The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.

To form furrows in with a plow

A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.

To form wrinkles or creases in

Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

To move or clear (snow, for example) by means of a plow.

The cultivation of soil for raising crops

To clear (an area) of snow or other material by means of a plow.

To make or form with driving force

To progress through (water)

Vulgar Slang To have intercourse with (another). Used of a man.

To break and turn up earth with a plow.

To move or clear material such as snow with a plow.

To admit of plowing

To move or progress with driving force

To proceed laboriously; plod

Present participle of plough

(agriculture) The breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting.

Tilling the land with a plow;