Tiller
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tiller¹
- /ˈtɪlə/ UK
- /ˈtɪlɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ɪlə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English tilier; equivalent to till + -er.
noun tillers
- A person who tills; a farmer. In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.
- A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
tiller²
- /ˈtɪlə/ UK
- /ˈtɪlɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ɪlə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
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”).
noun tillers · tillow
- A young tree. 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
- A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
verb tillers · tillering · tillered · tillow
- To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
tiller³
- /ˈtɪlə/ UK
- /ˈtɪlɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ɪlə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English teler, from Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving”), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin tēla (“web”).
noun tillers
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- A handle; a stalk.
- The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
- A small drawer; a till. But search her cabinet, and thou shalt find Each tiller there with love-epistles lin'd
Tiller⁴
Rhymes with -ɪlə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Capitalization of tiller
proper noun Tillers
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
- A suburb of Trondheim, formerly a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.
