[f. TILL v.1 + -ING2.] That tills or cultivates land.

1

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. I. 319. Þe first was an heerde, and þe toþer a tiliyng man.

2

1906.  Daily Chron., 15 Sept., 3/1. Nor spurn my muse because it sings … Of tilling men who plough and reap.

3