Crossword-Solution: TILLER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tiller | v. t. | One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman. |
| Tiller | n. | A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker. |
| Tiller | n. | A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump. |
| Tiller | n. | A young timber tree. |
| Tiller | v. i. | 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. |
| Tiller | n. | 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. |
| Tiller | n. | The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself. |
| Tiller | n. | The handle of anything. |
| Tiller | n. | A small drawer; a till. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TILLER | anagram | LILTER, RETILL, RILLET |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with TILLER (5)
For instance, if I found myself falling to the right, I put the tiller hard down the other way, by a quite natural impulse, and so violated a law, and kept on going down.
The master went to the tiller; his four companions leaned on their oars, the painter was cast off, and we sheered off.
When she fights strong and the tiller slips a little, in a jerky, greasy sort of way, let up on her a trifle; it is the way she tells you at night that the water is too shoal; but keep edging her up, little by little, toward the point.
And yet, when I laid eyes on those fishing arks lying in the water-front tules, without debate, on the instant, I put down my tiller, came in on the sheet, and headed for the shore.
Now we were light-manned, two half-breeds and two Canadians to handle the oars in time of peril, and Captain Xavier, who stood aft on the cabin roof, leaning against the heavy beam of the long, curved tiller, watching hawklike for snag and eddy and bar.
Quotes with TILLER (3)
The four of them stand in the cockpit of the Misdemeanor as they motor from one town to another. They pass their house, which is not theirs any longer. Libby cuts the throttle, and they stall there in front of their sprawling memory. The four of them have come up for the closing; since all of them are owners, they all must be present to sign away this place. They have given most of the land to the Maine Preservation Society, and the house, they have sold to a family who promi…
A little after moonrise Stephen woke. Extreme hunger had brought on cramps in his midriff again and he held his breath to let them pass: Jack was still sitting there, the tiller under his knee, the sheet in his hand, as though he had never moved, as though he were as immoveable as the Rock of Gibraltar and as unaffected by hunger, thirst, fatigue, or despondency. In this light he even looked rock-like, the moon picking out the salient of his nose and jaw and turning his broad…
They loved the sea. They taught themselves to sail, to navigate and read the weather. Without their mother's knowledge and long before she thought them old enough to sail outside the harbor, they were piloting their catboat all the way to the Isles of Shoals. They were on the return leg of one such excursion when the fickle weather of early spring took an abrupt turn and the sky darkened and the sun vanished and the wind came squalling off the open sea. They were a half mile …
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 39 times in crossword archives (1959–2024).