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n. One that tills land: a tiller of soil.

n. Nautical A lever used to turn a rudder and steer a boat.

n. A shoot, especially one that sprouts from the base of a grass.

verb-intransitive. To send forth shoots from the base. Used of a grass.

n. A person who tills; a farmer.

n. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.

n. A young tree.

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

v. To put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.

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

n. 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).

n. 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.

n. A handle; a stalk.

n. (obsolete) A small drawer; a till.

n. One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.

n.

n. A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.

n. A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.

n. A young timber tree.

verb-intransitive. To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk

n. A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of rudder. Cf. 2d helm, 1.

n. The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.

n. The handle of anything.

n. A small drawer; a till.

n. One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.

n. A drawer in a table, chest, or counter; a till.

n. A bar or staff used as a lever, or as the handle of an implement.

n. Nautical, the bar or lever fitted to the head of a rudder, and employed to turn the helm of a ship or boat in steering. See cut under rudder.

n. The handle of a spade.

n. The handle of a pit-saw, especially the upper one, having across-head. Wright. See cut under pit-saw.

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

To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; stool: said of a plant: as, wheat or rye tillers, or spreads by tillering. Also tillow.

n. lever used to turn the rudder on a boat

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

v. grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

n. a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass

n. a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)

"Assuming that your question is not rhetorical: a tiller is the "stick" you use on a sailboat to control the rudder and steer the boat."

tillered    tillering    tillers   

lever    farmer    husbandman    sodbuster    granger    acquire    get    grow    develop    produce   

tillow    rudder    helm   

tillered    tillering    tiller extension   

husbandman    cultivator    plowman    sucker    till    lever    helm   

Miller    Schiller    biller    chiller    distiller    driller    filler    giller    hiller    killer   

rudder    prow    oar    helm