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Tiller vs Filler - What's the difference?

tiller | filler |

As nouns the difference between tiller and filler

is that tiller is a person who tills; a farmer while filler is one who fills.

As a verb tiller

is to put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.

tiller

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who tills; a farmer.
  • * 2000 , (Alasdair Gray), The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, page 63:
    • In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.
  • A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
    • Synonyms
    * (machine) cultivator

    See also

    * motor plow

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) *.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A young tree.
    • (Evelyn)
  • A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • You can shoot in a tiller .
  • (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).
  • (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.
  • A handle; a stalk.
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.
    • (Dryden)
    Derived terms
    * tiller extension

    References

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    filler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who fills.
  • * Mortimer
    • They have six diggers to four fillers , so as to keep the fillers always at work.
  • Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
  • * 1977 , Stereo Review (volume 38, page 70)
    • I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler , dull instrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent
  • Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
  • A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics.
  • A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
  • A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
  • Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
  • * Dryden
    • 'Tis mere filler , to stop a vacancy in the hexameter.
  • Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
  • (computing) In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context.
  • (horticulture) A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.

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