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tiller - What does it mean?

Definition of 'tiller'

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A person who tills; a farmer.
  • * 2000 , (Alasdair Gray), The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, page 63:
    • In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.
  • A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
    • Synonyms
    * (machine) cultivator

    See also

    * motor plow

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) *.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (obsolete) A young tree.
    • (Evelyn)
  • A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • You can shoot in a tiller .
  • (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).
  • (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.
  • A handle; a stalk.
  • (UK|dialect|obsolete) A small drawer; a till.
    • (Dryden)
    Derived terms
    * tiller extension

    References

    * *

    Similar to 'tiller'

    tolar, tailor, taler, teller, talar, taller, thaler, tooler, toiler, tallier, tiler, tulwar, toller, tailour, thiller, tyler, tailer, talwar