资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Till \Till\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tilled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Tilling}.] [OE. tilen, tilien, AS. tilian, teolian, to aim,
   strive for, till; akin to OS. tilian to get, D. telen to
   propagate, G. zielen to aim, ziel an end, object, and perhaps
   also to E. tide, time, from the idea of something fixed or
   definite. Cf. {Teal}, {Till}, prep..]
   1. To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise
      crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a
      field, a farm.

            No field nolde [would not] tilye.     --P. Plowman.

            the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,
            to till the ground from whence he was taken. --Gen.
                                                  iii. 23.

   2. To prepare; to get. [Obs.] --W. Browne.

资料来源 : WordNet®

tilled
     adj : turned or stirred by plowing or harrowing or hoeing; "tilled
           land ready for seed"