Definitions for tillers

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tillers till·er

Spelling: [til-er]

IPA: /ˈtɪl ər/

Tillers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in tillers (eillrst).

Definitions for tillers

noun

1. a person who tills; farmer.
2. a person or thing that tills; cultivator.
3. a bar or lever fitted to the head of a rudder, for turning the rudder in steering.
4. a plant shoot that springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk.
5. a sapling.

verb (used without object)

1. (of a plant) to put forth new shoots from the root or around the bottom of the original stalk.

Origin of tillers

First recorded in 1200-50, tiller is from the Middle English word tiliere. See till², -er¹

Examples for tillers

But what exactly did O'Reilly say about tiller, and in what context?

The bar or lever that is fixed to the top of the rudder-post is called a tiller.

Calculating the instant to a nicety, he paid off the sheet and pulled up the tiller.

Wake up Dick there, and let him take his turn at the tiller.

tiller, for example, was frequently derided on The O'Reilly Factor.

Their ineptitude required the seaman to abandon his post at the tiller and man an oar himself.

Then he remembered the look on his master's face as he stood at the tiller.

In silence the man unshipped the tiller and moved toward the cleats.

Today the Moomin industry sails merrily along without her restraining hand on the tiller.

After tiller is largely devoid of politicking, instead choosing to simply follow the four doctors about their business.