Tiller

//ˈtɪlə//

Synonyms for "tiller" (58 found)

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Closest matches (12)

cultivator agriculturalist agriculturist agrologist agronomist bauer coffee-planter collective farm worker companion crofter

Noun(2 words)

cultivator branch

Strong matches (17)

cropper dirt farmer dry farmer farm laborer farmer farmhand gentleman farmer granger grower harvester harvestman haymaker helm husbandman kibbutznik kolkhoznik kulak

Related words (29)

muzhik parts peasant peasant holder picker planter plowboy plowman raiser rancher ranchman reaper rein reins reins of government rudder rustic sharecropper ship sower

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stool tea-planter tenant farmer tree farmer truck farmer wheel yeoman

Verb(1 words)

stool

Noun(1 words)

tillman

Related word relations

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10 relation types

More general

11 entries

acquire develop farm machine farmer get granger grow lever produce shoot sodbuster

Synonyms

2 entries

cultivator stool

Related terms

2 entries

Tillerson motor plow

derived

16 entries

Tillerson even hand at the tiller even hand on the tiller firm hand at the tiller firm hand on the tiller power tiller steady hand at the tiller steady hand on the tiller strong hand at the tiller strong hand on the tiller sure hand at the tiller sure hand on the tiller tiller extension tiller truck tiller-beam tillerman

derived from

1 entries

till

etymologically related_to

1 entries

tillow

has context

4 entries

archery dialect nautical uk

is a

4 entries

boat or ship part farmer lever shoot

part of

1 entries

rudder

related to

23 entries

arrow bar drawer farmer forward handle helmsman leadline motor plow plant rudder rudderhead sapling shoot stalk steer

Showing 16 of 23 words.

Translations

78 translations across 31 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

οἴαξ noun (part of the rudder)

Arabic

1 entries

زَارِع noun (person)

Breton

1 entries

barrenn-ster noun (part of the rudder)

Bulgarian

4 entries

издънка noun (shoot of a plant)
култиватор noun (machine)
орач noun (person)
ру́мпел noun (part of the rudder)

Catalan

1 entries

arjau noun (part of the rudder)

Czech

4 entries

kormidelní páka noun (part of the rudder)
kultivátor noun (machine)
kypřič noun (machine)
odnož noun (shoot of a plant)

Danish

2 entries

landmand noun (person)
rorpind noun (part of the rudder)

Dutch

4 entries

boer noun (person)
graafmachine noun (machine)
helmstok noun (part of the rudder)
landman noun (person)

Finnish

4 entries

kultivaattori noun (machine)
maanviljelijä noun (person)
peräsinkampi noun (part of the rudder)
peräsinvarsi noun (part of the rudder)

French

4 entries

barre noun (part of the rudder)
excavatrice noun (machine)
fermier noun (person)
paysan noun (person)

Galician

1 entries

cana noun (part of the rudder)

German

4 entries

Fräse noun (machine)
Helmstock noun (part of the rudder)
Motorpflug noun (machine)
Pinne noun (part of the rudder)

Greek

1 entries

αδελφώνω verb (put forth new shoots)

Hebrew

1 entries

יָדִית הֶגֶה noun (part of the rudder)

Hungarian

4 entries

hajókormány noun (part of the rudder)
kapáló ember noun (person)
kapálógép noun (machine)
kapás noun (person)

Icelandic

1 entries

stjórnvölur noun (part of the rudder)

Irish

3 entries

halmadóir noun (part of the rudder)
maide stiúrach noun (part of the rudder)
meathán íochtair noun (shoot of a plant)

Italian

4 entries

aratore noun (person)
aratro noun (machine)
barra del timone noun (part of the rudder)
accestire verb (put forth new shoots)

Latin

1 entries

ansa noun (part of the rudder)

Low German

2 entries

Helmholt noun (part of the rudder)
Pinn noun (part of the rudder)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

rorkult noun (part of the rudder)
rorpinne noun (part of the rudder)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Scheppstia noun (part of the rudder)

Polish

1 entries

rumpel noun (part of the rudder)

Portuguese

1 entries

cana do leme noun (part of the rudder)

Russian

1 entries

ру́мпель noun (part of the rudder)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

failm noun (part of the rudder)
falmadair noun (part of the rudder)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries

kormilo noun (part of the rudder)

Spanish

4 entries

arado cincel noun (machine)
campesino noun (person)
caña del timón noun (part of the rudder)
cultivador noun (machine)

Swahili

3 entries

kana noun (part of the rudder)
mkombo noun (part of the rudder)
ujari noun (part of the rudder)

Swedish

2 entries

jordfräs noun (machine)
rorkult noun (part of the rudder)

Welsh

2 entries

braich llyw noun (part of the rudder)
hegl llyw noun (part of the rudder)

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

A small boat is steered by means of a tiller fitted to the head of the rudder.

Source: tatoeba (672298)

Many early cars used a tiller instead of a steering wheel.

Source: tatoeba (4947749)

One, that bore / the brave Orontes and his Lycian crew, / full in AEneas' sight a toppling wave o'erthrew. / Dashed from the tiller, down the pilot rolled. / Thrice round the billow whirled her, as she lay, / then whelmed below.

Source: tatoeba (6780333)

And again she gave birth, to his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a tiller of the earth.

Source: tatoeba (10629515)

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