Tiller

Definitions

1. A young tree.
   obsolete
2. The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
3. A surname originating as an occupation.
   countable, uncountable
4. A person who tills; a farmer.
5. A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
6. 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).
7. An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
   countable, uncountable
8. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
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. A suburb of Trondheim, formerly a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.
    countable, uncountable
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 handle; a stalk.
13. The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
14. A small drawer; a till.
    UK, dialectal, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land⟳, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.”

“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”

“You can shoot⟳ in a tiller.”

“But search⟳ her cabinet, and thou shalt find⟳ Each tiller there with love-epistles lin'd”

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