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till¹  subordinating conjunction So that, with the result that, in such a way that. [SND till conj 3 “implying purpose, in order that”; DHE till; CUD till conj “in order that”; DARE labels this usage “chiefly South”]

1862 Martin CW Letters (July 18) the wether is So hot that A fellow gets weeken down in one Day till he hardly Can walk. 1922 TN CW Ques 378 (Hancock Co TN) my mind is week till I cant think of lots of things has past. 1939 Hall Coll (Tuckaleechee Cove TN) They had tied silk cords around a jack’s leg till he couldn’t walk. 1956 Hall Coll (Indian Camp Creek NC) They told her that somebody was a-witching the cows till they couldn’t churn the milk. 1984 Gibson Remembering ii If you get this would you drop me a card till I’ll know you did get it. 1998 Dante OHP-61 He built a box till they wouldn’t fill that up.

till² preposition To (usually used to indicate segments of time between the half-hour and the hour).

1939  Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) It was twenty minutes till eleven when I shot the turkey. 1949 Kurath Word Geog East US 30 In the greater part of the Midland the phrase quarter till eleven is current. In south-central Pennsylvania and the entire Midland area lying to the south of Pennsylvania till is the usual preposition in this phrase. 1966 Dakin Vocab Ohio River Valley 17 The Kentucky Mountains and Knobs, Indiana south of the Vincennes Trace, and the interior Illinois counties north of the Shawnee Hills have till almost exclusively. It is the predominate [sic] term throughout the rest of Kentucky except for the Bluegrass. 1989 Matewan OHP-33 I'm interviewing Charlie Elliott on July the tenth at a quarter till four in the afternoon.