a. [f. TILL v.1 + -ABLE.] Capable of being tilled or cultivated; usually, capable of being ploughed, arable.
1573. Northbrooke, Poore Mans Gard., To Rdr. The Earth then remained to man as a thing tillable.
1610. W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, I. x. 26. Wee found it scarce tillable with a strong Teeme of Oxen.
1784. J. Twamley, Dairying Exempl., 22. The greater number of Dairys are on Tillable or Arable Farms.
1810. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, II. II. vii. 135. The most common divisions of tillable lands were carucates, or plough lands, and bovates, or oxgangs.
1868. Treaty betw. U.S. & Cheyenne & Arapahoe, Art. III. If is should appear from actual survey or other examination of said tract of land, that it contains less than one hundred and sixty acres of tillable land for each person, [etc.].
1893. J. W. Hoff, 200 Miles on Delaware River, 125. The cultivated and tillable soil … in this region is formed from decayed rock.
