Tiller

/ˈtɪlə/ · noun

Meaning

A person who tills; a farmer..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person who tills; a farmer.
2. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
3. (obsolete) A young tree.
4. A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
5. (intransitive) To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
6. (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
7. (nautical) A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
8. (nautical) The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.

Example Sentences

In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.

first you must provide you of a Ladder to ascend the top of your Pit : this they usually make of a curved Tiller fit to apply to the convex shape of the heap

You can shoot in a tiller.

But search her cabinet, and thou shalt find Each tiller there with love-epistles lin'd

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Word Forms

• tillers
• tillow
• tillering
• tillered

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