till
Plural: tills
Noun
- unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
- a treasury for government funds
- a strongbox for holding cash
- A cash register.
- A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
- The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
- A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
- A tray or drawer in a chest.
- glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
- manure or other material used to fertilize land
- A vetch; a tare.
Verb
Verb Forms: tilled, tilling, tills
- To prepare land for crops by plowing, harrowing, or fertilizing.
- work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
- "till the soil"
- To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
- To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
- To cultivate soil.
- To prepare; to get.
Prep
- Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
- Before (a certain time or event).
- To, up to (physically).
- To, toward (in attitude).
- So that (something may happen).
Conj
- Until, until the time that.
Examples
- He needed to TILL the fertile grounds of his vocabulary to find a high-scoring word.
- I have to work till eight o'clock tonight.
- It's twenty till two. (1:40)
- My count of my till was 30 dollars short.
- Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.
- She stayed till the very end.
- They led him till his tent
- When you've finished serving that customer could you jump off please? We need to take the till.
Origin / 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 shortening 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”).
Scrabble Score: 4
till: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtill: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
till: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary