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A person who tills; a farmer.
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A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
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A young tree.
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A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
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To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
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The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
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A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
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The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
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A handle; a stalk.
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The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
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A small drawer; a till.
Examples of tillers in a Sentence
The Greek rulers of the Orthodox faith were unable to protect the tillers of the soil, and these being of the Monophysite persuasion and having their own church and patriarch, hated the Orthodox patriarch (who from the time of Justinian onwards was identical with the prefect) and all his following.
The leafy shoots survive the winter and new tillers appear between the old shoots as the weather turns mild.
Apart from the usual dismasting, broken rudder, tillers, rigging etc, she has been reasonably trouble free.
Under frequent cutting, common bent produces small tillers close to the ground.
Thus, neither carbon tillers, nor tillers bonded to the head of the rudder, nor laminated rudders conform to the new rules.
Some version of this story is basic to tillers of the soil in every part of the world.
Garden tractors typically contain more horsepower that enables them to pull other equipment like trailers and tillers.
Below the feudal nobility and their Moslem soldiers came the Christian serfs, tillers of the soil and taxpayers, whose lives and property were at the mercy of their lords.
The conquered in many cases could be left as serfs and tillers of the soil, while the conquerors seized the higher positions of administration and power.
As a rule the tillers of the soil live away from their lands, in some neighbouring village.
Here the Lechici, as they called themselves (a name derived from the mythical patriarch, Lech), seemed to have lived for centuries, in loosely connected communities, the simple lives of huntsmen, herdsmen and tillers of the soil, till the pressure of rapacious neighbours compelled them to combine for mutual defence.
His Orleanist tendencies and his objections to the republic were strong, and though he at first supported Tillers, he afterwards became a leader of the opposition to the president.
Even when in the course of time landownership was appropriated by the crown, the ecclesiastical corporations and the nobles, the tillers of the land retained their personal freedom and were considered to be farmers holding their plots under contracts.
It is an annual plant, with hollow, erect, knotted stems, and pro duces, in addition to the direct developments from the seedling plant, secondary roots and secondary shoots (tillers) from the base.
On receiving a favourable reply from the Holy See, Gedymin issued circular letters, dated 25th of January 1325, to the principal Hanse towns, offering a free access into his domains to men of every order and profession from nobles and knights to tillers of the soil.
You, peaceful inhabitants of Moscow, artisans and workmen whom misfortune has driven from the city, and you scattered tillers of the soil, still kept out in the fields by groundless fear, listen!
The relations between owners and tillers of the soil are still regulated by the ancient forms of agrarian contract, which have remained almost untouched by social and political changes.
The very laws which were made during successive reigns for protecting the tillers of the soil from spoil are the best proofs of the deplorable state of the husbandman."' In the r7th century those laws were made which paved the way for an improved system of agriculture in Scotland.