Definition of till Till

/tɪˈl/ - [til] - till

We found 28 definitions of till from 5 different sources.

What does till mean?

Noun Plural: tills
till - unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
		boulder clay
		dirt, soil the state of being covered with unclean things
till - a strongbox for holding cash
		cashbox, money box
		deedbox, strongbox a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked
till - a treasury for government funds
		public treasury, trough
Verb tills, tilling, tilled
till - work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation; "till the soil"
		work on, process, work subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill"
		husbandry, farming, agriculture agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"
		plough, plow, turn to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"
		hoe dig with a hoe; "He is hoeing the flower beds"

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till (Noun)
A cash register .
till (Noun)
A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
till (Noun)
The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
till (Noun)
glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders.
till (Noun)
manure or other material used to fertilize land.
till (Verb)
To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate.
till (Verb)
To work or cultivate or plough soil; to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
till (Verb)
To cultivate soil.

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

till
til, n. a money-box or drawer in a desk, counter, or trunk. [M. E. tillen, to draw out—A.S. tyllan, in for-tyllan, to draw aside.]
till
til, prep. to the time of.—adv. to the time when: to the degree that. [Old Northumbrian til—Scand., Ice. til.]
till
til, v.t. to cultivate.—adj. Till′able, arable.—ns. Till′age, act or practice of tilling: husbandry: a place tilled; Till′er; Till′ing. [A.S. tilian, to till—til, good, a limit; Ger. zielen, to arrange.]
till
til, n. the usual name in Scotland for Boulder-clay, a widely-distributed stony clay, usually tough and hard, unquestionably the result of glaciation, probably being merely the bottom-moraine or ground-moraine of extinct glaciers

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till in sign language