tiller🔊

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.

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

(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.

(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.