tiller

[US]/'tɪlə/
[UK]/'tɪlɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.handle of a small boat; cultivator; farmer;a machine for tilling the soil
vi.produce shoots from a plant

Phrases & Collocations

rotary tiller

Example Sentences

a tiller of soil.

the tiller of a boat

If the tiller is industrious,the farmland is productive.

I took the tiller and made for the shore.

a steady hand on the tiller;

Some wheats and ryes tiller freely.

The number and biomass of the tillers and rhizomes were all in a linear isogony growth with increasing survival space of the clones.

In the wake of Tiller's death, Terry convened an emergency war council of anti-abortionist leaders, and called for a wave of social unrest on a scale not seen since the civil rights days.

Real-world Examples

" Your hand raised the sail. Your hand holds the tiller" .

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings (Bilingual Edition)

His hand still nervously grasped the tiller, and his eye was bent eagerly towards the horizon.

Source: British Original Language Textbook Volume 3

Yes, an Me 109. From the south. Peter, you take the tiller.

Source: Dunkirk Selection

He heard the tiller break and he lunged at the shark with the splintered butt.

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones.

Source: Selected Poems of Tagore

Six rowers sat on the thwarts, and the coxswain took the tiller. Ned, Conseil, and I found seats in the stern.

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

He jammed the tiller, made the sheet fast and reached under the stern for the club.

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Give me that tiller right now!

Source: The Durrells Season 1

2 Next she bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the soil.

Source: New American Bible

The longboat's coxswain took the tiller; his four companions leaned into their oars; the moorings were cast off and we pulled clear.

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

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