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Definition tiller

Etymology 1

From Middle English tilier; equivalent to till +‎ -er.

Noun

tiller (plural tillers)

1. A person who tills; a farmer.
2. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *til?er, *tel?er, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-Germanic *telgô, *telg?, *telguz (“twig, branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *delg?- (“to split, divide, cut, carve”). Cognate with 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”).

Noun

tiller (plural tillers)

1. (obsolete) A young tree.
2. A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.

Verb

tiller (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.

Etymology 3

Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving”), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin t?la (“web”).

Noun

tiller (plural tillers)

1. (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
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. A handle; a stalk.
5. The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
6. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.

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