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tiller

UK /ˈtɪlə/US /ˈtɪlɚ/

noun 11
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 1

noun11

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.
The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
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A person who tills; a farmer.
- In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger. — 2000
A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
A handle; a stalk.
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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. — 1608
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(no longer used) 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 — 1664
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(dialect, no longer used) A small drawer; a till.
- But search her cabinet, and thou shalt find Each tiller there with love-epistles lin'd — 1693

verb1

To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.

forms

tillered · tillering · tillers

Phrases with tiller

steady hand on the tiller
Reliable, composed control (of an organization or situation).

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