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- 1 Until, until the time that.
"Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try."
- 1 A placename:; A river in Northumberland, England, tributary to the Tweed. uncountable
"Tweed says to Till: "What gars ye rin sae still ?" Till says to Tweed: "Tho ye rin wi' speed And I rin slaw Whar ye droon ae man,"
- 2 A placename:; A river in Wiltshire, England. uncountable
- 3 A placename:; A river in Lincolnshire, England. uncountable
- 4 A surname. countable
"Technically speaking, it’s Lucas Till, the actor playing Tripp, who is far too old to be riding a school bus, not his character in Monster Trucks, who is written as a 16-year-old, maybe 17 tops. But Till does not look 16, nor 17, nor even 18."
- 1 A cash register. British
"I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue."
- 2 glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
- 3 A vetch; a tare.
- 4 a strongbox for holding cash wordnet
- 5 A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
"Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe."
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- 6 manure or other material used to fertilize land dialectal
- 7 a treasury for government funds wordnet
- 8 The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
"My count of my till was 30 dollars short."
- 9 unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together wordnet
- 10 A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
- 11 A tray or drawer in a chest. obsolete
- 1 Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
"She stayed till the very end."
- 2 Before (a certain time or event).
"It's twenty till two. (1:40)"
- 3 To, up to (physically). dialectal, obsolete
"They led him till his tent"
- 4 To, toward (in attitude). dialectal, obsolete
""Here's at you old hoss!" hiccupped I, with a friendly pitch in the way of a nod at Rice. "Go it, young grampus, that's me! Here's till ye, my infant progidy!" replied he, as he clinked his glass against mine."
- 5 So that (something may happen). dialectal
"1953?, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot VLADIMIR: Together again at last! We'll have to celebrate this. But how? (He reflects.) Get up till I embrace you."
- 1 To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.). transitive
- 2 work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation wordnet
- 3 To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops. transitive
"Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken."
- 4 To cultivate soil. intransitive
- 5 To prepare; to get. obsolete
"Nor knowes a trappe nor snare to till"
Etymology
From Middle English til, from Northern Old English til, from or akin to Old Norse til (“to, till”); both from Proto-Germanic *til (“to, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *tilą (“planned point in time”). Not a contraction of until; rather, until comes from till with the prefix un- (“against; toward; up to”) also found in unto. Cognate with Old Frisian til (“to, till”), Danish til (“to”), Swedish till (“to, till”), Icelandic til (“to, till”). Also related to Old English til (“good”), German Ziel (“goal”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌻 (til, “something fitting or suitable”).
From Middle English til, from Northern Old English til, from or akin to Old Norse til (“to, till”); both from Proto-Germanic *til (“to, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *tilą (“planned point in time”). Not a contraction of until; rather, until comes from till with the prefix un- (“against; toward; up to”) also found in unto. Cognate with Old Frisian til (“to, till”), Danish til (“to”), Swedish till (“to, till”), Icelandic til (“to, till”). Also related to Old English til (“good”), German Ziel (“goal”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌻 (til, “something fitting or suitable”).
From Middle English tylle (“till”), possibly from Middle English tillen (“to draw”) from Old English *tyllan (“to draw, attract”) (as in betyllan (“to lure, decoy”) and fortyllan (“to draw away”); related to *tollian > Middle English tollen). Cognate with Albanian ndjell (“I lure, attract”). Alternatively, Middle English tylle is from Anglo-Norman tylle (“compartment”), from Old French tille (“compartment, shelter on a ship”), from Old Norse þilja (“plank”).
From Middle English tilyen, from Old English tilian.
Unknown, but possibly via etymology 3 (the verb) because alluvial deposit is used as a fertilizer.
From Middle English tylle; shortened from lentile (English lentil).
* As an English surname, reduced from a pet form of Matilda. * As a north German surname, spelling variant of Thiel.
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