tillman
nounEtymology From Middle English tylman; equivalent to till + -man.
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Obsolete A man who tills the earth; a husbandman.
- Good shepherd, good tillman, good Jack and good Gill, Make husband and huswife their coffers to fill1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC: