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tiller
tiller is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
- 2noun
A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
- 3noun
A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
- 4noun
A young timber tree.
- 5intransitive verb
To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
- 6noun
A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
- 7noun
The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.
- 8noun
The handle of anything.
- 9noun
A small drawer; a till.
- 10noun
a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
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- 11noun
lever used to turn the rudder on a boat
- 12noun
someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)
- 13noun
a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass
- 14verb
grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
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