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Till

noun

Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together. Synonym: boulder clay.

A treasury for government funds. Synonyms: public treasury, trough.

A strongbox for holding cash. Synonyms: cashbox, money box.

verb

(past & past part. tilled; pres. part. tilling)

Work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation.

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... perhaps, have been so punctual, had not a set of notes and messages from his friend at the Cleikum, ever following each other as thick as the papers which decorate the tail of a schoolboy's kite, kept him so continually on the alert from daybreak till noon, that Mr. Touchwood found him completely dressed; and the whiskey was only delayed for about ten minutes before the door of the manse, a space employed by Mr. Cargill in searching for the spectacles, which ...

— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... that place. Captain Hawkins had gone up to Agra, which is about thirty days journey up into the interior country from Surat, and at which place the King, or Emperor of the Moguls, resides. Our general, Captain Alexander Sharpey, remained at Surat with his company till the end of September, when he and the rest of our people went from Surat to Agra, intending to go by land through Persia in the way to England. But I, holding this to be no fit course for me, determined to try some other method of endeavouring to get home. ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII. • Robert Kerr

... do not put off till old age a plain duty of the present. Give the best of your life to your Maker; after all, the present is all you can call ...

— The Old Stone House • Anne March

... "Batty" he was known to nearly all the cities of America—did an occasional bit of "stooling" for the Central Office, a tip as to a stray yeggman's return, a hint as to a "peterman's" activities in the shopping crowds, a whisper that a till tapper had failed to respect the ...

— Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer

... and I feel that I am under condemnation till I reform. I don't know how to stop being slippery, but I'm determined to stop being close. Will you tell her that for me? Will you tell her that you never met an opener, franker person?—of course, except herself!—and that so far from being ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

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