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The drawer that turns your daydream of riches into a satisfying little ka-ching.
means A cash drawer or small money box in a shop where coins and notes are kept during the day's business.
from From Middle English 'tillen' or 'tylle,' meaning a small drawer or compartment for valuables. The word for the cash version is the same one — a little drawer set aside to hold money — though its deeper roots are murky, possibly tied to an old verb for drawing out or pulling. Worth noting: this 'till' has nothing to do with the farmer's 'till' (to plough soil) or the conjunction 'till' (meaning 'until'); these are three separate words that happened to land on the same spelling, like strangers sharing a name.
- old word
- Means to cultivate land, predating any cash drawer
- glacial till
- Unsorted rock debris dumped by retreating glaciers
- bell origin
- Early registers rang to alert owners of theft
- short skim
- Stealing from the till birthed the phrase till-tapping
till river — river in england that flows through lincolnshire and merges with the river witham
till machine — cash register invented by james ritty in dayton, ohio in 1879