tiller

IPA: tˈɪɫɝ

A person who tills; a farmer.
A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
(obsolete) A young tree.
A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
(archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
(nautical) 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).
(nautical) 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.
(aviation, by extension) 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.
A handle; a stalk.
The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.
A surname originating as an occupation.
An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
A suburb of Trondheim, formerly a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.

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

Examples of "tiller" in Sentences

The tiller is a tool to cultivate and prepare the soil.
Marah lying over the tiller was the next thing which I saw; he was dead, I thought.
Your steady hand on the tiller is very much missed -- it's an ill wind that is not a Chetwynd!
Within a few feet of the tiller was a deck-house, in which the crew ate, built of solid oak and clamped with iron.
Braced against the tiller was a man in drenched tarpaulins; two other men were holding on to the shrouds like grim death.
The man holding the tiller was a sardine fisher, to whom every rock, every ripple, of these troubled waters was familiar.
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.
Affections for old habit, currents of self-interest, and gales of passion are the forces that keep the human ship moving; and the pressure of the judicious pilot's hand upon the tiller is a relatively insignificant energy.
The tiller is a piece of board three feet long, two inches wide, and one inch thick, having a V-shaped notch at the lower end to fit on the handle and small notches on its side two inches apart, for a distance of twenty-eight inches.
Pointe-aux-Herbes and the eastern skyline beyond, he and Sweetheart alone, his hand clasping hers -- the tiller, that is -- hour by hour, and the small waves tiptoeing to kiss her southern cheek as she leaned the other away from the saucy north wind.