tiller
IPA: tˈɪɫɝ
noun
- 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.
verb
- (intransitive) To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
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Examples of "tiller" in Sentences
- This is pumped by means of the tiller.
- The farmer asked me to hand him a tiller.
- The boat is damaged and the tiller is gone.
- Farmers were looking for tillers and a spade.
- Controls for the lift are mounted on the tiller.
- The rudder is controlled by a small wheel on the tiller.
- The company is the leading manufacturer of tillers in the world.
- A hand grip is desirably provided at the free end of the tiller.
- GySgt Tiller stepped toward the appellant and reached for the gun.
- A tiller is removably attached to the upper end of the rudder shaft.