Tiller
noun
1.
a person who tills; farmer.
2.
a person or thing that tills; cultivator.
noun, Nautical.
1.
a bar or lever fitted to the head of a rudder, for turning the rudder in steering.
noun
1.
a plant shoot that springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk.
2.
a sapling.
verb (used without object)
3.
(of a plant) to put forth new shoots from the root or around the bottom of the original stalk.
noun
1.
(nautical) a handle fixed to the top of a rudderpost to serve as a lever in steering it
noun
1.
a shoot that arises from the base of the stem in grasses
2.
a less common name for sapling
verb
3.
(intransitive) (of a plant) to produce tillers
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