• (RP) IPA: /ˈtɪlə/

tiller (plural tillers)

1. A person who tills; a farmer.
   • 2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 63:

     In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.

2. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.

• (machine) cultivator

• French: fermier, paysan
• Italian: aratore

• French: excavatrice
• German: Fräse, Motorpflug (colloquial)
• Italian: aratro
• Spanish: arado cincel, cultivador, motoarado

tiller (plural tillers)

1. (obsolete) A young tree.
2. A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.

tiller (tillers, present participle tillering; past and past participle tillered)

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

• Italian: accestire

tiller (plural tillers)

1. (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
   • c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 2, scene 2:

     You can shoot in a tiller.

2. (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).
3. (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.
4. A handle; a stalk.
5. The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
6. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.

• French: barre
• German: Pinne, Helmstock
• Portuguese: cana do leme
• Spanish: caña del timón

1. Surname

• Tillerson
• tiller