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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Till  \Till\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tilled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Tilling}.]  [OE.  tilen,  tilien,  AS  tilian,  teolian,  to  aim 
  strive  for  till;  akin  to  OS  tilian  to  get  D.  telen  to 
  propagate,  G.  zielen  to  aim  ziel  an  end  object,  and  perhaps 
  also  to  E.  tide,  time,  from  the  idea  of  something  fixed  or 
  definite.  Cf  {Teal},  {Till},  prep..] 
  1.  To  plow  and  prepare  for  seed,  and  to  sow,  dress,  raise 
  crops  from  etc.,  to  cultivate;  as  to  till  the  earth,  a 
  field,  a  farm. 
 
  No  field  nolde  [would  not]  tilye.  --P.  Plowman. 
 
  the  Lord  God  sent  him  forth  from  the  garden  of  Eden, 
  to  till  the  ground  from  whence  he  was  taken  --Gen. 
  iii.  23. 
 
  2.  To  prepare;  to  get  [Obs.]  --W.  Browne. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tilled 
  adj  :  turned  or  stirred  by  plowing  or  harrowing  or  hoeing;  "tilled 
  land  ready  for  seed" 




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