Till
11Till — Till, n. [Properly, a drawer, from OE. tillen to draw. See {Tiller} the lever of a rudder.] A drawer. Specifically: (a) A tray or drawer in a chest. (b) A money drawer in a shop or store. [1913 Webster] {Till alarm}, a device for sounding an… …
12till — Ⅰ. till [2] ► NOUN ▪ a cash register or drawer for money in a shop, bank, or restaurant. ORIGIN originally in the sense «drawer or compartment for valuables»: of unknown origin. Ⅱ. till [3] ► VERB ▪ prepare and cultivate (land) for crops …
13till|er — till|er1 «TIHL uhr», noun. a bar or handle at the stern used to turn the rudder in steering a boat. ╂[< Anglo French teiler, OFrench telier (originally) weaver s beam, learned borrowing from Medieval Latin telarium < Latin tēla web, loom]… …
14Till — Till, v. i. To cultivate land. Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster] …
15Till — Till, n. [Abbrev. from lentil.] A vetch; a tare. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] …
16Till — Till, n. 1. (Geol.) 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… …
17Till — Till, Tyll Kurz und Koseform von Namen mit »Diet« (Bedeutung: Volk) und von → Theoderich. Vor allem in Norddeutschland verbreitet. Bekannt durch die Figur des Till Eulenspiegel. In Deutschland seit Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts mit wachsender… …
18till — [n] cash box box, cash drawer, cash register, kitty*, money box, safe, tray, treasury, vault; concept 339 till [v] cultivate land dig, dress, farm, grow, harrow, hoe, labor, mulch, plant, plough, plow, prepare, raise crops, sow, tend, turn, turn… …
19till — till1 [til] prep. [ME < OE til, akin to ON, to, till, OE, fitness: for IE base see TILL2] 1. UNTIL 2. Now Scot. up to the place of; as far as conj. UNTIL till2 [til] vt., vi …
20Till [1] — Till, das schmale Fahrwasser, bes. in Flußmündungen …
