Tiller

Noun

 * 1) A person who tills; a farmer.
 * 2) A machine that mechanically tills the soil.

Noun

 * 1)  The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
 * 2)  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)  Part of the rudder the helm 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) A handle; a stalk.

Noun

 * 1)  A young tree.

Verb

 * 1)  To put forth new shoots.

Thesaurus
Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, helm, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, reins, reins of government, rudder, rustic, sharecropper, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tree farmer, truck farmer, wheel, yeoman

Etymology 1
From till, the verb.

Etymology 2
Anglo-Norman telier ‘beam used in weaving’, from mediaeval Latin telarium, from Latin tela ‘web’.

Etymology 3
From Old English telgor “small branch”

Noun

 * Croatian:
 * Finnish:
 * Scottish Gaelic: failm, falmadair


 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: rorkult

Derived terms

 * tiller extension

Verb

 * Italian: