till3+ (til)

[ E. toll2 ), pull, allure, Then went Mary & Ioseph al-so, With che rising thai spac him to, To the scole him for-to tille . Cursor Mundi (ed. Morris), 1. 12175. Metr. Hom . (ed. Small), p. 113. To tilie this yong man to foli. II. in trans. To draw; stretch; reach. As muche place as myd a thong ich mai aboute tille . Rob. of Gloucester (ed. Hearne), p. 115. till3 (til), n. [Early mod. E. tyll ; tiller . Closets; and in them many a chest;... In those chests, boxes; in each box, a till . G. Herbert, The Temple, Confe ion. Specifically-2. A money-drawer; a drawer under or in a shop-counter, in which money is kept. IMG:content-0423.png:[graphic] Swift . They break up counters, doors, and tills . It [the dust] treasured itself up, too, in the half-open till , where there still lingered a base sixpence. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, ii. 3. In printing: ( a ) In earlier forms of hand printing-pre es, a cro piece extending between the main uprights of the frame, and serving to guide and steady the hose or sleeve, which contained the spindle and screws. Also called shelf. (b) One of the spaces or cells between the ribbed projections of the platen of a hand pre .