Tilling can mean:
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Tillage
Tillage is the agriculture, agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical wikt:agitation#Noun, agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Examples of manual labour, human-powered tilling methods using hand tools inc ...
, an agricultural preparation of the soil.
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TILLING (molecular biology) TILLING (Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes) is a method in molecular biology that allows directed identification of mutations in a specific gene. TILLING was introduced in 2000, using the model plant ''Arabidopsis thaliana'', and expanded o ...
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Tilling is a fictional town in the
Mapp and Lucia
''Mapp and Lucia'' is a 1931 comic novel written by E. F. Benson. It is the fourth of six novels in the popular Mapp and Lucia (novel series), Mapp and Lucia series, about idle women in the 1920s and their struggle for social dominance over the ...
novels of E. F. Benson.
* Tilling Green,
Ledshire, is a fictional village in Patricia Wentworth's
Miss Silver
Miss Silver is a fictional detective featured in 32 novels by British novelist Patricia Wentworth.
Character
Miss Maud Silver is a retired governess-turned- private detective. Like Miss Marple, Miss Silver's age and demeanor make her appear harml ...
novel, ''Poison in the Pen''.
* The
Tilling Group
The Tilling Group was one of two Conglomerate (company), conglomerates that controlled almost all of the major bus operators in the United Kingdom between World Wars I and II and until nationalisation in 1948.
Tilling, together with the other ...
, once a major British bus company and later a
conglomerate.
* ''Thomas Tilling'' was Cockney
rhyming slang
Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language. It is especially prevalent among Cockneys in England, and was first used in the early 19th century in the East End of London; hence its alternative name, Cockney rhymin ...
for a
shilling
The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currency, currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 1 ...
.
* People with the surname Tilling
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Robert I. Tilling, geologist
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Roger Tilling, a British broadcaster
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Thomas Tilling
The Tilling Group was one of two conglomerates that controlled almost all of the major bus operators in the United Kingdom between World Wars I and II and until nationalisation in 1948.
Tilling, together with the other conglomerate, British E ...
, founder of the Tilling Group
* ''Tilling''
slang
A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing and speech. It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of pa ...
when someone rubs someone else behind, in a circular motion for a long period of time
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