Tiller

n.	1.	One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
	1.	(Bot.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
	2.	A young timber tree.
v. i.	1.	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. [imp. & p. p. Tillered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tillering.]
n.	1.	(Naut.) 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.
	2.	The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself. You can shoot in a tiller. - Beau. & Fl.
	3.	The handle of anything.
	4.	A small drawer; a till. 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.

Noun	1.	tiller - a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass
	2.	tiller - someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)
	3.	tiller - lever used to turn the rudder on a boat
	4.	tiller - a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) Synonyms: cultivator
Verb	1.	tiller - grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers Synonyms: stool

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