tillers

Noun (1)

tiller (plural tillers)

1. 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, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 63
2. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.

   Synonyms:

   cultivator

Noun (2)

tiller (plural tillers)

1. (obsolete) 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 heap1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal...
2. A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.

Noun (3)

tiller (plural tillers)

1. 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.c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679...
2. 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).

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