till - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'till' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . 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.

2 . Till

[ n.]

- A vetch; a tare.
- A drawer.
- A tray or drawer in a chest.
- A money drawer in a shop or store.
- 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.
- A kind of coarse, obdurate land.

3 . 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.
- To prepare; to get.

4 . Till

[ v. i.]

- To cultivate land.

5 . 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.

Meaning of 'till' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . till

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation

Example in sentence:

till the soil

Nearby Words:

til til tree tilburies tilbury tilde tile tile-drain tiled tilefish tiler

See 'till' also in:

Dictionary.com Google Translator Wikipedia.com Merriam Webster

Field artillery
Field artillery refers to equipment, supplies, ammunition, and personnel that are involved in the use of cannon, rocket, or surface-to-surface missile launchers.
Air defense artillery
Air defense artillery— weapons and equipment for actively combating air targets from the ground. Also called ADA.

Categories

Browse Dictionary