Till

Till , noun

[Abbrev. from lentil.]

A vetch; a tare. [Provincial English]

Till , noun

[Properly, a drawer, from Old English tillen to draw. See Tiller the lever of a rudder.]

A drawer.

(a)

A tray or drawer in a chest.

(b)

A money drawer in a shop or store.

Collocations (1)

Till alarm , a device for sounding an alarm when a money drawer is opened or tampered with.

Till , noun

(Geology) 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.

A kind of coarse, obdurate land. — Loudon

Till , preposition

[Old English til, Icelandic til; akin to Danish til, Swedish till, OFries. til, also to Anglo-Saxon til good, excellent, German ziel end, limit, object, Old High German zil, Gothic tils, gatils, fit, convenient, and English till to cultivate. See Till, transitive verb]

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

Collocations (2)

Till now , to the present time.

Till then , to that time.

Till , conjunction

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

This use may be explained by supposing an ellipsis of when, or the time when, the proper conjunction or conjunctive adverb begin when.

Till , transitive verb

[Old English tilen, tilien, Anglo-Saxon tilian, teolian, to aim, strive for, till; akin to Old Saxon tilian to get, Dutch telen to propagate, German zielen to aim, ziel an end, object, and perhaps also to English tide, time, from the idea of something fixed or definite. Compare Teal, Till, prep..]

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

To prepare; to get. [Obsolete] — W. Browne

Till , intransitive verb

To cultivate land. — Piers Plowman