The Meaning of till

• (n.) A vetch; a tare.
• (n.) A drawer.
• (n.) A tray or drawer in a chest.
• (n.) A money drawer in a shop or store.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
• (v. t.) 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.
• (conj.) 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.
• (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.
• (prep.) To prepare; to get.
• (v. i.) To cultivate land.

Synonyms

boulder clay , public treasury , trough , cashbox , money box

Homophones

til

Rhymes

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