Till (furniture)

Till (furniture)

A Till is a small compartment or shelf inside a larger blanket or other form of chestcite web
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Use of tills to hold cash, within chests used for the storage of retail goods, may have been part of the word's evolution to the common UK term "till" for a cash register.

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