Meaning

11 senses

  1. A person who tills; a farmer.

    someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)

  2. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.

    Fräse, Motorpflug

  3. A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.

  4. The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.

  5. 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).

  6. 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.

    Pinne, Helmstock

    ру́мпельrúmpelʹ

  7. (broadly)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.

  8. A handle; a stalk.

  9. The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.

  10. (obsolete)A young tree.

  11. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)A small drawer; a till.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Gabriel was ordered to take the tiller.

    Amastan · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

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

    ruВо многих автомобилях поначалу использовалась рукоятка вместо рулевого колеса. — Karok

    Hybrid · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

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

    deEin kleines Boot wird mit einer am Ruderkopf befestigten Pinne gesteuert. — Yorwba

    qdii · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

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

    ruИ еще родила брата его, Авеля. И был Авель пастырь овец, а Каин был земледелец. — Ivanovb

    deDanach gebar sie Abel, seinen Bruder. Und Abel wurde ein Schäfer, Kain aber wurde ein Ackermann. — Waldelfe

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
part of the rudder:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
machine:
part of the rudder:

Origin

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

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

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”).

From Middle English teler, from Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving”), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin tēla (“web”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: tillers
Singulartiller
Pluraltillers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
machine:cultivator
Close in meaning
  • a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture):cultivator

Word family

9 related words
Relatedmotor plowtill
Derivedpower tillertiller-beamtiller yoketiller extensiontillerlesstillermantiller truck

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tillA2tilttimber

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