Definition of "tiller"

tiller¹

/ˈtɪlə/

noun
plural tillers
1. A person who tills; a farmer.
  Quotations
  In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.
  2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 63
2. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.

tiller²

/ˈtɪlə/

noun
plural tillers
1. (obsolete) A young tree.
  Quotations
  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
  1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […]
2. A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
verb
third-person singular simple present tillers, present participle tillering, simple past and past participle tillered
1. (intransitive) To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.

tiller³

/ˈtɪlə/

noun
plural tillers
1. (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
  Quotations
  You can shoot in a tiller.
  c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, Act II, scene ii
2. (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).
3. (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.
4. (aviation, by extension) 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.
5. A handle; a stalk.
6. The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
7. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.
  Quotations
  But search her cabinet, and thou shalt find Each tiller there with love-epistles lin'd
  1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […]

Definition of "tiller"

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