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Tiller
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- 1 A surname originating as an occupation. countable, uncountable
- 2 An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. countable, uncountable
- 3 A suburb of Trondheim, formerly a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. countable, uncountable
- 1 A person who tills; a farmer.
"In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger."
- 2 A young tree. obsolete
"first you must provide you of a Ladder to ascend the top of your Pit : this they usually make of a curved Tiller fit to apply to the convex shape of the heap"
- 3 The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
"You can shoot in a tiller."
- 4 a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) wordnet
- 5 A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
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- 6 A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
- 7 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).
- 8 lever used to turn the rudder on a boat wordnet
- 9 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.
- 10 someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops) wordnet
- 11 A steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or tailwheel to provide steering during taxi. broadly
- 12 a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass wordnet
- 13 A handle; a stalk.
- 14 The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
- 15 A small drawer; a till. UK, dialectal, obsolete
"But search her cabinet, and thou shalt find Each tiller there with love-epistles lin'd"
- 1 To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool. intransitive
- 2 grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English tilier; equivalent to till + -er.
From Middle English telȝre, telgra, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-West Germanic *telguʀ, from Proto-Germanic *telguz (“twig, branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *delgʰ- (“to split, divide, cut, carve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tälge (“sapling”), 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 Middle English telȝre, telgra, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-West Germanic *telguʀ, from Proto-Germanic *telguz (“twig, branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *delgʰ- (“to split, divide, cut, carve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tälge (“sapling”), 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 Middle English teler, from Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving”), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin tēla (“web”).
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