Obs. [f. TILL v.1 + MAN sb.] A man employed in tillage; a farmer, husbandman; a plowman, peasant; a tiller of the soil.
940. Grant of land in Wilts., in Birch, Cart. Sax., II. 483. Lang weʓes þæt ofer tilmannes dene.
13[?]. Cursor M., 4696 (Cott.). Tilmen oueral þe land a-boute … þair sede had saun.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xl. (Ninian), 201. & he þane, as gud tele-man, To wirk in goddis ȝard begane.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 237. Summe feendys komyn as tylmen wyth here hors & carte.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 34. Good shepheard, good tilman, good Jack and good Gil, Makes husband and huswife their cofers to fil.
1620. T. Granger, Div. Logike, 56. The till-man plowing in the field, findeth a treasure.
