cultivate, cultivating 1. To prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; to till the earth. 2. To use a cultivator on. 3. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant, crop, etc.) by labor and attention. 4. To produce by culture: to cultivate a strain of bacteria. 5. To develop or improve by education or training; to train; to refine: to c... Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/586/3
A dialectal term used on the Moselle (Germany) for ploughing the vineyard; see also Roden und Weingartenpflege. Found on https://glossary.wein.plus/cultivating