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Tiller [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. [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.]

Tiller [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A money box in a shop; a drawer.

Tiller [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

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

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

Tiller [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.

2. A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.

3. A young timber tree.

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. The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.

6. The handle of anything.

7. A small drawer; a till.

Tiller [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.

Tiller-rope [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The rope which forms a communication between the fore end of the tiller and the wheel.

Tillered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tillering [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of sending forth young shoots from the root or around the bottom of the original stalk.

Tillering [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Sending out new shoots round the bottom of the original stem.

Tillering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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