Obs. or dial. [f. TILL v.1]

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  1.  An act of tilling or ploughing land: see TILL v.1 4.

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1647.  Husbandman’s Plea agst. Tithes, 36. Item for plowing of the fallow for Wheat at 3 tilles at 5 s. the Acre, for every of the three times plowing 60 li.

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1760.  Brown, Compl. Farmer, II. 32. In Oxfordshire … they give their sour land a till, according to the … condition of their lands.

4

  b.  concr. (See quots.)

5

1794–1806.  Rep. Agric., Lanc., 27 (E.D.S.). Till, a compost of earth and lime, mixed.

6

1828.  Craven Gloss., Till, Tillage, manure, compost.

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  2.  ? Labor, toil: cf. TILL v.1 1.

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a. 1800[?].  Dame Oliphant, xii., in Child, Ballads (1886), IV. 409/1. Willie he gaed hame again, To his hard task and till.

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