tiller

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a lever used to turn a boat's rudder and control its direction

   She pushed the tiller to port and guided the boat around the buoy.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who cultivates land

   The poem honors the patient tiller who works the soil each spring.

3. 3
   noun

   a machine or implement that breaks up and cultivates soil

   He used a small rotary tiller to prepare the vegetable bed.

4. 4
   noun

   a shoot that grows from the base of a grass or cereal plant

   Each wheat plant produced several strong tillers after the rain.

The cultivator noun is till + -er. The steering noun comes from Middle English teler, a crossbow stock or tiller, through Anglo-French teiler. The plant-shoot noun descends from Old English telgor, "twig or shoot." The soil-working machine extends the agricultural verb till.

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