Usually means: Handle for steering a boat.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tiller: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tiller, tiller, tiller: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tiller, tiller, tiller: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tiller: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tiller: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tiller, tiller: Wordnik
  7. tiller: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Tiller, tiller: Wiktionary
  9. tiller: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tiller: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tiller: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tiller: Dictionary.com
  13. tiller: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Tiller (botany), Tiller (disambiguation), Tiller: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Tiller: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. tiller: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. tiller: Rhymezone
  18. Tiller: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. tiller: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. tiller: Free Dictionary
  21. tiller: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. tiller: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tiller: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tiller: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TILLER, TILLER, TILLER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. tiller: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tiller: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tiller: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tiller: Master Mariner
  2. TILLER: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Tiller: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See tillered as well.)

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noun:  A person who tills; a farmer.
noun:  A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
noun:  (obsolete) A young tree.
noun:  A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
noun:  (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
noun:  (nautical) 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).
noun:  (nautical) 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.
noun:  (aviation, by extension) A steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or tailwheel to provide steering during taxi.
noun:  A handle; a stalk.
noun:  The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
noun:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
noun:  A suburb of Trondheim, formerly a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.

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