Tiller definition
A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
noun
A person or machine that tills the soil.
noun
A bar or handle connected to a rudder, and used to turn it in steering a boat.
noun
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.
noun
One that tills land.
A tiller of soil.
noun
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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).
noun
A lever used to turn a rudder and steer a boat.
noun
To send forth shoots from the base. Used of a plant.
verb
A shoot growing from the base of the stem of a plant.
noun
To send forth tillers.
verb
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(intransitive) To put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
verb
A shoot, especially one that sprouts from the base of a grass or sedge.
noun
Alternative Forms
Alternative Form of tiller -
tillow
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