Tiller meaning

tĭl'ər
One that tills land.

A tiller of soil.

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The definition of a tiller is a person or machine that turns over soil for planting crops, a handle that turns the rudder of a boat, or a shoot growing from the base of a plant.

An example of a tiller is a vegetable farmer who uses a plow to turn over the soil in their field.

An example of a tiller is what a person uses to steer a boat.

An example of a tiller is a new offshoot growing at the bottom of a tree.

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A bar or handle connected to a rudder, and used to turn it in steering a boat.
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A person or machine that tills the soil.
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A shoot growing from the base of the stem of a plant.
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(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).
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A lever used to turn a rudder and steer a boat.
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A shoot, especially one that sprouts from the base of a grass or sedge.
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To send forth shoots from the base. Used of a plant.
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To send forth tillers.
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A person who tills; a farmer.
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A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
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A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
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(intransitive) To put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
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(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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(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.
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Origin of tiller

  • 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
  • Middle English tiller from Old English telgor
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • 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").
    From Wiktionary
  • Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving"), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin tela (“web").
    From Wiktionary
  • From till +"Ž -er.
    From Wiktionary

Tiller Sentence Examples

  • In bad years the tiller, moreover, gives up seed corn before beginning harvest.

  • Under terzieria the owner furnishes stock, implements and seed, and the tiller retains only one-third of the principal products.

  • If the tiller receives as much as 45 lire per month, supplemented by other wages in kind, it is said to be boaria a salario; if the principal part of his remuneration is in kind, his contract is called boaria a spesa.

  • At harvest-time the produce is placed in the barns of the lessor, who first deducts 25% as premium, then 16% for battiteria (the difference between corn before and after winnowing), then deducts a proportion for rent and subsidies, so that the portion retained by the actual tiller of the soil is extremely meagre.

  • The several trades, such as that of fisherman, the tiller of the ground, and the builder of canoes and houses, had each their presiding deities.

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