Tiller Definition

tĭlər
tillers
noun
tillers
A person or machine that tills the soil.
Webster's New World
A bar or handle connected to a rudder, and used to turn it in steering a boat.
Webster's New World
A shoot growing from the base of the stem of a plant.
Webster's New World

(archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.

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verb
tillers
To send forth tillers.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Tiller

Noun

Singular:
tiller
Plural:
tillers

Origin of Tiller

  • From Middle English *tilȝer, *telȝer, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-Germanic *telgô, *telgōn (“twig, branch"), from Proto-Indo-European *delgÊ°- (“to split, divide, cut, carve"). Cognate with Dutch telg (“descendant, scion, offshoot, shoot"), Dutch Low Saxon telge (“twig, branch"), German Zelge (“twig, branch, bough"), Swedish telning (“branch, scion, sapling"), Icelandic tág (“willow-twig").

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  • Middle English tiler stock of a crossbow from Old French telier from Medieval Latin tēlārium weaver's beam from Latin tēla web, weaver's beam teks- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving"), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin tela (“web").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English tiller from Old English telgor

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From till +"Ž -er.

    From Wiktionary

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