tiller – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: shoot,
granger,
farmer,
husbandman,
sodbuster,
lever,
farm machine,
grow,
produce,
acquire,
get,
develop
tiller
n.
one who prepares land for raising crops, farmer; lever used to steer a boat by changing the direction of a rudder (Nautical); original shoot of a plant (Botany); stalk of a crossbow
Tiller
A
tiller or
till is a
lever attached to a
rudder post (American terminology) or
rudder stock (English terminology) of a boat that provides leverage in the form of
torque for the
helmsman to turn the
rudder. The tiller can be used by the helmsman directly pulling or pushing it, but it may also be moved remotely using tiller lines or a
ship's wheel.
tiller
Noun
1. a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass
(hypernym) shoot
(derivation) stool
2. someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)
(hypernym) farmer, husbandman, granger, sodbuster
(derivation) till
3. lever used to turn the rudder on a boat
(hypernym) lever
(part-holonym) rudder
4. a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
(synonym) cultivator
(hypernym) farm machine
(hyponym) harrow
(derivation) till
Verb
1. grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
(synonym) stool
(hypernym) grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
Tiller
(v. t.)
One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
(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.
(n.)
The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.
(n.)
The handle of anything.
(n.)
A young timber tree.
(n.)
A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
(n.)
A small drawer; a till.
(n.)
A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
tiller
Synonyms and related words:
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|
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
