1. A cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
   "The cashier rang up the purchases on the till";
   - cash register, register
    
2. A strongbox for holding cash
   "The shopkeeper locked the day's earnings in the till";
   - cashbox, money box
    
3. A treasury for government funds
   "The tax revenue went directly into the public till";
   - public treasury, trough [informal]
    
4. Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
   "The geologist identified a layer of till, indicating past glacial activity in the area";
   - boulder clay

1. (farming) work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
   "till the soil"

1. Up to, before the time
   "too expensive till now";
   - until

1. Up to a time that
   "sleep till it gets light";
   - until

Derived forms: tilled, tills, tilling

Type of: deedbox, dirt, exchequer [Brit], process, soil, strongbox, treasury, work, work on

Encyclopedia: Till, Michael