tillman

See also: Tillman

English

Etymology

From Middle English tylman; equivalent to till +‎ -man.

Noun

tillman (plural tillmen)

1. (obsolete) A man who tills the earth; a husbandman.
   • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC:

     Good shepherd, good tillman, good Jack and good Gill,
     Make husband and huswife their coffers to fill

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tillman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• ant mill