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tiller

TILL'ER, n. A money box in a shop; a drawer.



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TILL'ER, n. A money box in a shop; a drawer.


TILL'ER, n.

  1. One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
  2. The bar or lever employed to turn the rudder of a ship.
  3. A small drawer; a till.
  4. Among farmers, the shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; also, the sprout or young tree that springs from the root or stump.
  5. A young timber tree. [Local.]

TILL'ER, v.i.

To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, we say, wheat or rye tillers; it spreads by tillering. The common orthography is tiller. Sir Joseph Banks writes it tillow.


Till"er
  1. One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
  2. A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.

    (b)
  3. 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.

    [Sometimes written tillow.]
  4. 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.
  5. A young timber tree.

    [Prov. Eng.] Evelyn.
  6. The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.

    [Obs.]

    You can shoot in a tiller. Beau. *** Fl.

  7. The handle of anything.

    [Prov. Eng.]
  8. A small drawer] a till.

    Dryden.

    Tiller rope (Naut.), a rope for turning a tiller. In a large vessel it forms the connection between the fore end of the tiller and the steering wheel.

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Tiller

TILL'ER, noun A money box in a shop; a drawer.

TILL, prep or adverb

1. To the time or time of. I did not see the man till the last time he came; I waited for him till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.

Till now, to the present time. I never heard of the fact ill now.

Till then, to that time. I never heard of the fact till then.

2. It is used before verbs and sentences in a like sense, denoting to the time specified in the sentence or clause following. I will wait till you arrive.

He said to them, occupy till I come. Luke 19:1.

Certain Jews--bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. Acts 23:1.

Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God.

[Note.--In this use, till is not a conjunction; it does not connect sentences like and, or like or. It neither denotes union nor separation, nor an alternative. It has always the same office, except that is precedes a single word or a single sentence; the time to which it refers being in one case expressed by a single word, as now, or the, or time, with this, or that, etc., and in the other by a verb with its adjuncts; as, occupy till I come. In the latter use, till is a preposition preceding a sentence, like against, in the phrase, against I come.]

TILL, verb transitive

1. To labor; to cultivate; to plow and prepare for seed, and to dress crops. This word includes not only plowing but harrowing, and whatever is done to prepare ground for a crop, and to keep it free from weeds.

The Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. Genesis 3:1.

2. In the most general sense, to till may include every species of husbandry, and this may be its sense in Scripture.

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