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TILL
cashbox, money box, till
(noun) a strongbox for holding cash
till, boulder clay
(noun) unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
till
(verb) work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation; “till the soil”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Till (countable and uncountable, plural Till)
A placename
(uncountable) A river in Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, tributary to the Tweed.
Traditional saying
(uncountable) A river in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
(uncountable) A river in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
(countable) A surname.
Synonyms
• (river): River Till
Anagrams
• it'll, lilt
Etymology 1
Preposition
till
Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
(obsolete) To, up to (physically).
(dialectal) To make it possible that.
Usage notes
"till" in this context is usually considered colloquial in modern English (except for in some regional variants such as Indian English) and in most cases can be replaced by "until" or "to".
Synonyms
• (until): til (nonstandard), 'til (nonstandard), until
Conjunction
till
Until, until the time that.
Synonyms
• (until): til (nonstandard), 'til (poetic), until; see also until
Etymology 2
Noun
till (plural tills)
A cash register.
A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
(obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.
Etymology 3
Verb
till (third-person singular simple present tills, present participle tilling, simple past and past participle tilled)
(transitive) To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
(transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
(intransitive) To cultivate soil.
(obsolete) To prepare; to get.
Etymology 4
Unknown, but possibly via etymology 3 (the verb) because alluvial deposit is used as a fertilizer.
Noun
till
glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
(dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land
Etymology 5
Noun
till (plural tills)
A vetch; a tare.
Anagrams
• it'll, lilt
Source: Wiktionary
Till, n. Etym: [Abbrev. from lentil.]
Definition: A vetch; a tare. [Prov. Eng.]
Till, n. Etym: [Properly, a drawer, from OE. tillen to draw. See Tiller the lever of a rudder.]
Definition: A drawer. Specifically: (a) A tray or drawer in a chest. (b) A money drawer in a shop or store. Till alarm, a device for sounding an alarm when a money drawer is opened or tampered with.
Till, n.
1. (Geol.)
Definition: A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.
2. A kind of coarse, obdurate land. Loudon.
Till, prep. Etym: [OE. til, Icel. til; akin to Dan. til, Sw. till, OFries. til, also to AS. til good, excellent, G. ziel end, limit, object, OHG. zil, Goth. tils, gatils, fit, convenient, and E. till to cultivate. See Till, v. t.]
Definition: To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week. He . . . came till an house. Chaucer. Women, up till this Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo. Tennyson. Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his writings
– all through them till the very end. Prof. Wilson. Till now, to the present time.
– Till then, to that time.
Till, conj.
Definition: As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until. And said unto them, Occupy till I come. Luke xix. 13. Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God. Jer. Taylor. There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived. Macaulay.
Note: This use may be explained by supposing an ellipsis of when, or the time when, the proper conjunction or conjunctive adverb begin when.
Till, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilling.] Etym: [OE. tilen, tilien, AS. tilian, teolian, to aim, strive for, till; akin to OS. tilian to get, D. telen to propagate, G. zielen to aim, ziel an end, object, and perhaps also to E. tide, time, from the idea of something fixed or definite. Cf. Teal, Till, prep..]
1. To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm. No field nolde [would not] tilye. P. Plowman. the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. Gen. iii. 23.
2. To prepare; to get. [Obs.] W. Browne.
Till, v. i.
Definition: To cultivate land. Piers Plowman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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