Planter vs Tiller - What's the difference?
planter | tiller |
A box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor.
(historical) Any of the early English settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.
A machine used for planting seeds.
A person who plants seeds, either by hand or by machine.
The owner of a plantation.
A person who tills; a farmer.
* 2000 , (Alasdair Gray), The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, page 63:
A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
(obsolete) A young tree.
A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
To put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
(archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(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.
As nouns the difference between planter and tiller
is that planter is a box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor while tiller is a person who tills; a farmer.As a verb tiller is
to put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.planter
English
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* * English agent nouns ----tiller
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.
Synonyms
* (machine) cultivatorSee also
* motor plowEtymology 2
From (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- (Evelyn)
Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- You can shoot in a tiller .
- (Dryden)