a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1714. Welsh Monster, 26. In a wild Corner of the World, Worthless, untillable, and barren.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, I. 398. On the shore Of the untillable and barren deep.
1812. Brackenridge, Views Louisiana (1814), 27. An extensive region of open plains and meadows, interspersed with bare untillable hills.
1889. Times, 20 April, 5/1. A considerable portion of the district being untillable.