A person who operates or works the land using a till (tiller), or a surname; historically a farmer or peasant.
Compound of 'till' (to cultivate soil) and 'man' (person). This is a traditional occupational surname from medieval times when most people's surnames described their work.
Surnames like Tillman, Miller, and Fletcher are linguistic fossils—they tell us what entire populations did for a living in medieval times, creating a snapshot of ancient economies in our phone books!
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