What is the difference between tiller and husband?
tiller | husband |
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.
(lb) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
(lb) A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
*, IV.3:
*:a withered tree, through husbands toyle, / Is often seene full freshly to have florisht
*(rfdate) (George Hakewill) (1578-1649)
*:the painful husband , ploughing up his ground
*(rfdate) (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestick and field accommodations.
(lb) A prudent or frugal manager.
*(rfdate) (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband , to improve the short remnant left me.
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
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*(rfdate) (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)
*:The husband and wife are one person in law.
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*:A great bargain also had beenthe arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
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:(Dryden)
(lb) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
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A polled tree; a pollard.
To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
To conserve.
* 1719, (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
(obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
* (rfdate) (Evelyn)
To provide with a husband.
To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
In context|obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between tiller and husband
is that tiller is (obsolete) a young tree while husband is (obsolete) a tiller of the ground; a husbandman.As nouns the difference between tiller and husband
is that tiller is a person who tills; a farmer or tiller can be (obsolete) a young tree or tiller can be (archery) the stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow while husband is (obsolete) the master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.As verbs the difference between tiller and husband
is that tiller is to put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool while husband is to manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.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)
Derived terms
* tiller extensionReferences
* *husband
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* wifeHypernyms
* partner (may or may not be married ) * spouse (may also apply to wife )Derived terms
* ex-husband * house husband * hubby * husbandage * husbandly * husbandman * husbandry * husbandless * ship's husbandVerb
(en verb)- For my means, I'll husband them so well, / They shall go far. — Shakespeare.
- ...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise.
- Land so trim and rarely husbanded .
- (Shakespeare)
