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Definitions for Tiller

[1] a person who tills; farmer.
[2] a person or thing that tills; cultivator.
[3] a bar or lever fitted to the head of a rudder, for turning the rudder in steering.
[4] a plant shoot that springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk.
[5] a sapling.
[6] (of a plant) to put forth new shoots from the root or around the bottom of the original stalk.
[7] nautical a handle fixed to the top of a rudderpost to serve as a lever in steering it
[8] a shoot that arises from the base of the stem in grasses
[9] a less common name for sapling
[10] (intr) (of a plant) to produce tillers

Words related to Tiller

wheel, rancher, peasant, laborer, producer, grower, knob, shaft, stem, tender, reaper, gardener, agriculturist, clodhopper, horticulturist, villein, homesteader, gleaner, feeder, planter

Words nearby Tiller

till the cows come home, tillable, tillage, tillamook bay, tillandsia, tiller, tillerman, tilley, tillich, tillicum, tillite

Origin of Tiller

3before 1000; Old English telgor twig, shoot (not recorded in ME); akin to telge rod, Old Norse tjalga branch, telgja to cut

Other words from Tiller

till·er·less , adjective

Word origin for Tiller

Old English telgor twig; related to Icelandic tjalga branch

Synonyms for Tiller

wheel, helm