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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Tiller

Tĭll'er, n.

noun

n. 1. One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.

  1. (Naut.) 1. The bar or lever employed to turn the rudder of a ship or boat.
  2. The stalk or handle of a cross-bow; and sometimes the bow itself.

You can shoot in a tiller. Beau. & Fl.

  1. The handle of any thing. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
  2. A small drawer; a till.
  3. (Agric.) (a.) The shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk. (b.) The sprout or young tree that springs from the root or stump.
  4. A young timber tree. [Prov. Eng.] Evelyn.

Tĭll'er, v. i.

verbintransitive

[imp. & p. p. TILLERED; p. pr. & vb. n. TILLERING.] To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; it spreads by tillering. [Sometimes written tillow.]