Definition of "tiller" in English

noun

1. A person who tills; a farmer.

2. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.

noun

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.

verb

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

noun

1. (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.

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. (aviation, 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.

5. A handle; a stalk.

6. The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.

7. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.