till

Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).

She stayed till the very end.

I have to work till eight o'clock tonight.

Before (a certain time or event).

It's twenty till two. (1:40)

Is that the town-clock striking? / I think that it is to-night / My fever will reach its crisis, / There are long hours yet till light.

To, up to (physically).

They led him till his tent

She, poor bird, as all forlorn / Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn / And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, / To to hear it was great pity.

To, toward (in attitude).

"Here's at you old hoss!" hiccupped I, with a friendly pitch in the way of a nod at Rice. "Go it, young grampus, that's me! Here's till ye, my infant progidy!" replied he, as he clinked his glass against mine.

And then she changed her voice and would be as saft as honey: 'My puir wee Ailie, was I thrawn till ye? Never mind, my bonnie. You and me are a' that's left, and we maunna be ill to ither.'

So that (something may happen).

1953?, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot VLADIMIR: Together again at last! We'll have to celebrate this. But how? (He reflects.) Get up till I embrace you.

Until, until the time that.

Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.

I charge you, O ye daughters of Ierusalem, by the Roes, and by the hindes of the field, that ye stirre not vp, nor awake my loue, till she please.

A cash register.

I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.

A removable box within a cash register containing the money.

Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.

When you've finished serving that customer could you jump off please? We need to take the till.

The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.

My count of my till was 30 dollars short.

A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.

A tray or drawer in a chest.