Obs. or rare. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To till, cultivate. Hence Tilthed ppl. a.; † Tilthing vbl. sb., tillage; also † Tilther, a tiller, cultivator.
1495. Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., XVII. cxiv. (W. de W.), S j/2. The wyld cole growyth wythout tylthyng [Bodl. MS. teleinge]. Ibid., clxxx. The erthe tylthers [Bodl. MS. tiliers] & kepers of vynes.
1496. Dives & Paup. (W. de W.), I. xxii. 58/1. They … gyue them to tylthe the londe.
1866. J. B. Rose, trans. Ovid’s Met. (1899), 113. I cast the viperous teeth in tilthèd ground. Ibid., 202. The husbandman beholds the unharnessed bull Fall in the tilthèd furrow.
