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- English Word Till Definition A money drawer in a shop or store.
- English Word Till 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.
- English Word Till Definition A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
- English Word Till 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.
- English Word Till 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.
- English Word Till Definition 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.
- English Word Till Definition To prepare; to get.
- English Word Till Definition To cultivate land.
- English Word Tillable Definition Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.
- English Word Tillage Definition The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.
- English Word Tillage Definition A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.
- English Word Tillandsia Definition A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.
- English Word Tilled Definition of Till
- English Word Tiller Definition One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
- English Word Tiller Definition A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
- English Word Tiller Definition A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
- English Word Tiller Definition A young timber tree.
- English Word Tiller Definition To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
- English Word Tiller Definition A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
- English Word Tiller Definition The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.