Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The lentil.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of till.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tills.

Examples

  • The objection to such a position here, and a general conviction and custom that a man should own the ground he tills is so irresistible, that long ago the great northern properties of the Livingstones, Van Rensselaers, and Wadsworths

    Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters 1891

  • Put simply, you cannot have one member of staff in a busy shop, a long queue of disgruntles customers and still expect the member of staff to query and check each and every transaction on the self service tills because, in the case of yesterday, that would mean he would be effectively manning three tills, which is not possible.

    Norfolk Blogger 2008

  • As the gleaming spires of Cabot Circus open in Bristol, across the region there are plenty of worried families for whom a day out at the tills is the last thing on thier mind.

    Indymedia Ireland MoneyWatch 2008

  • [306] Parkinson said, "The country people sow it in the fields as food for their cattle, and call it 'tills', leaving out the 'lent', as thinking that word agreeth not with the matter."

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Target, Super-WalMart, Mall of America, Ikea, Bath & Body works … your tills were full because of me.

    Confessions of a Shopaholic « Northern Belle 2009

  • Non-food inflation, which includes clothing and electrical goods, slowed to 1.2% from 1.5%, according to the survey, as retailers were forced to offer discounts to keep the tills ringing.

    Shops fear bleak summer with sharp rise in prices 2011

  • It seems all they care about is big oil, pharmaceuticals and all the others who fill their tills with money to try to stop anykind of meaniful healthcare.

    Steele: No guilt trip after Kennedy death 2009

  • Some thing is there, what we don't know, that tills the soil and mines the well, and sends the sun to ripen;

    Something There michael dickes 2011

  • The tills should be ringing just in time to overcome the revenue problems the club might otherwise have encountered with Uefa's financial fair-play regulations.

    Anti-Glazer protest leads to slump in Manchester United shirt sales 2011

  • Detta är i och för sig kanske väntat, eftersom det ändå finns en gräns för hur många fans serien kan få, åtminstone tills det har gått några år och de som är för unga nu, upptäcker serien.

    Twilight Lexicon » Twilight Sales Finally Reach Inevitable Slow Down 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.