till
verb/tɪl/
/tɪl/
(old use)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they till | /tɪl/ /tɪl/ |
| he / she / it tills | /tɪlz/ /tɪlz/ |
| past simple tilled | /tɪld/ /tɪld/ |
| past participle tilled | /tɪld/ /tɪld/ |
| -ing form tilling | /ˈtɪlɪŋ/ /ˈtɪlɪŋ/ |
- till something to prepare and use land for growing cropsWord Originverb Old English tilian ‘strive for, obtain by effort’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch telen ‘produce, cultivate’ and German zielen ‘aim, strive’, also ultimately to till ‘until’. The current sense dates from Middle English.
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