Tiller meaning
A tiller of soil.
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.
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 *tilÈer, *telÈer, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-Germanic *telgô, *telgÅn (“twig, branch"), from Proto-Indo-European *delgʰ- (“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.
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