Tiller

Quick meaning: Tiller is a noun meaning A person who tills; a farmer.

Meaning

A person who tills; a farmer.

More Meanings

1. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
2. A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
3. (intransitive) To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
4. (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
5. (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).
6. (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.
7. (obsolete) A young tree.

Example Sentences

You can shoot in a tiller.

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

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

Word Forms

• tillers
• tillow
• tillering
• tillered

Synonyms for tiller

Depending on context, synonyms include cultivator, stool.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cultivator, stool, hoe, bar, handrail, wheel.

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