till2 (tɪl) ![]() | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to cultivate and work (land) for the raising of crops |
| 2. | another word for plough |
| [Old English tilian to try, obtain; related to Old Frisian tilia to obtain, Old Saxon tilōn to obtain, Old High German zilōn to hasten towards] | |
| 'tillable2 | |
| —adj | |
| 'tiller2 | |
| —n | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |