Till vs Tiller - What's the difference?
till | tiller |
To.
*, Bk.XVIII, Ch.vii:
*:Than the knyghtes parters of the lystis toke up Sir Madore and led hym tylle hys tente.
*1854 , Prof. John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Burns ,
*:Similar sentiments will recur to everyone familiar with his writings all through them till the very end.
Until, up to, as late as (a given time).
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until, until the time that
* 1582 , 2:7:
* 1846 , Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense :
* 1912 , anonymous, Punky Dunk and the Mouse , P.F. Volland & Co.:
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
(obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.
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
* Bible, Genesis iii. 23
to cultivate soil
(obsolete) To prepare; to get.
glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
(dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land
A person who tills; a farmer.
* 2000 , (Alasdair Gray), The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, page 63:
A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
(obsolete) A young tree.
A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
To put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
(archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(nautical) A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
(nautical) The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
A handle; a stalk.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.
In obsolete terms the difference between till and tiller
is that till is to prepare; to get while tiller is a young tree.In intransitive terms the difference between till and tiller
is that till is to cultivate soil while tiller is to put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.As nouns the difference between till and tiller
is that till is a cash register while tiller is a person who tills; a farmer.As verbs the difference between till and tiller
is that till is to develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc while tiller is to put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.As a preposition till
is to.As a conjunction till
is until, until the time that.till
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)p.194 (Google preview):
Synonyms
* (until) til, 'til, untilConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.
- that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.
- She twirled round and round, / Till she sunk underground,
- And the Mouse sat and laughed till he cried.
Synonyms
* (until) 'til, untilEtymology 2
From (etyl) tillen'' "to draw" from (etyl) ''-tyllan'' (as in ''betyllan'' "to lure, decoy," and ''fortyllan'' "draw away;" related to ''tollian ). Cognate with Albanian . Or alternatively from (etyl) tylle'' "compartment" from (etyl) ''tille'' "compartment, shelter on a ship" from (etyl) '' "plank."Noun
(en noun)- Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.
- My count of my till was 30 dollars short.
Etymology 3
(etyl) tilianVerb
(en verb)- The Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "till")Etymology 4
Unknown, but possibly via etymology 3 (the verb) because alluvial deposit is used as a fertilizer.Noun
(wikipedia till) (en noun)Etymology 5
Shortened from lentil.References
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English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.
Synonyms
* (machine) cultivatorSee also
* motor plowEtymology 2
From (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- (Evelyn)
Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- You can shoot in a tiller .
- (Dryden)