From Middle English tilier; equivalent to till + -er.
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A person who tills; a farmer.
In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger. 2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 63:
From Middle English telȝre, telgra, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-West Germanic *telguʀ, from Proto-Germanic *telguz (“twig, branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *delgʰ- (“to split, divide, cut, carve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tälge (“sapling”), Dutch telg (“descendant, scion, offshoot, shoot”), Dutch Low Saxon telge (“twig, branch”), German Zelge (“twig, branch, bough”), Swedish telning (“branch, scion, sapling”), Icelandic tág (“willow-twig”).
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(obsolete) A young tree.
first you must provide you of a Ladder to ascend the top of your Pit : this they usually make of a curved Tiller fit to apply to the convex shape of the heap 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
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Translations (7)
bg издънка (shoot of a plant) · ga meathán íochtair (shoot of a plant) · et juurdevõsu (shoot of a plant) · bg филиз (shoot of a plant) · et kasv (shoot of a plant) · cs výhonek (shoot of a plant) · cs odnož (shoot of a plant)
From Middle English telȝre, telgra, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-West Germanic *telguʀ, from Proto-Germanic *telguz (“twig, branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *delgʰ- (“to split, divide, cut, carve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tälge (“sapling”), Dutch telg (“descendant, scion, offshoot, shoot”), Dutch Low Saxon telge (“twig, branch”), German Zelge (“twig, branch, bough”), Swedish telning (“branch, scion, sapling”), Icelandic tág (“willow-twig”).
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(intransitive) To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
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et võsuma (put forth new shoots) · cs rozvětvovat se (put forth new shoots) · bg пускам филизи (put forth new shoots) · el αδελφώνω (put forth new shoots) · cs rozvětvit se (put forth new shoots) · fi versoa (put forth new shoots) · it accestire (put forth new shoots)
From Middle English teler, from Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving”), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin tēla (“web”).
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The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
You can shoot in a tiller. c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
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).
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.
(broadly) 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, dialectal, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.
But search her cabinet, and thou shalt find
Each tiller there with love-epistles lin'd 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
is stjórnvölur (part of the rudder) · sw ujari (part of the rudder) · hu hajókormány (part of the rudder) · fi peräsinkampi (part of the rudder) · sh kormilo (part of the rudder) · nds-de Helmholt (part of the rudder) · grc οἴαξ (part of the rudder) · nds-de Pinn (part of the rudder) · bg ру́мпел (part of the rudder) · la ansa (part of the rudder) · fi peräsinvarsi (part of the rudder) · fi pinna (part of the rudder) · gd falmadair (part of the rudder) · pdt Scheppstia (part of the rudder) · es caña del timón (part of the rudder) · ga maide stiúrach (part of the rudder) · gl cana (part of the rudder) · cy braich llyw (part of the rudder) · sv rorkult (part of the rudder) · he יָדִית הֶגֶה (part of the rudder) · nl helmstok (part of the rudder) · pl rumpel (part of the rudder) · ga halmadóir (part of the rudder) · fr barre (part of the rudder) · de Pinne (part of the rudder) · cy hegl llyw (part of the rudder) · ca arjau (part of the rudder) · et tüüripuu (part of the rudder) · nb rorpinne (part of the rudder) · cs kormidelní páka (part of the rudder) · hu kormányrúd (part of the rudder) · et roolipinn (part of the rudder) · non grandr (part of the rudder) · gd failm (part of the rudder) · sw mkombo (part of the rudder) · pt cana do leme (part of the rudder) · br barrenn-ster (part of the rudder) · it barra del timone (part of the rudder) · nb rorkult (part of the rudder) · sw kana (part of the rudder) · ru ру́мпель (part of the rudder) · da rorpind (part of the rudder) · de Helmstock (part of the rudder)