Tiller vs Iller - What's the difference?
tiller | iller |
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.
(ill)
(label) Evil; wicked (of people).
* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
(label) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 2:
Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
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Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
Having an urge to vomit.
(label) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill', ''comparative'' '''iller''', ''superlative'' ' illest .]
* 1994 , Biggie Smalls, The What
(label) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be .
Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
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* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 541:
* 2006 , Julia Borossa (translator), Monique Canto-Sperber (quoted author), in (quoting author), ''Dead End Feminism , Polity, ISBN 9780745633800,
(often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, title= Harm or injury.
Evil; moral wrongfulness.
* (John Dryden)
A physical ailment; an illness.
Unfavorable remarks or opinions.
(US, slang) PCP, phencyclidine.
As a noun 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.As a verb tiller
is to put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.As an adjective iller is
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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
* *iller
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* ----ill
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.
- ‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’
- Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?"
Usage notes
* The comparative forms iller and illest are used in American English, but less than one fourth as frequently as the "more" and "most" forms.Synonyms
* (suffering from a disease''): diseased, poorly (''UK ), sick, under the weather (informal), unwell * (having an urge to vomit ): disgusted, nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickened * (bad ): bad, mal- * (in hip-hop slang: sublime ): dope * See alsoAntonyms
* (suffering from a disease ): fine, hale, healthy, in good health, well * (having an urge to vomit ): * (bad ): good * (in hip-hop slang: sublime ): wackDerived terms
* be ill * fall ill * ill at ease * ill effects * illness * ill wind * lie ill in one's mouth * mentally ill * be taken illReferences
Adverb
(en adverb)- In both groups, however, we find copious and intricate speciation so that, often, species limits are narrow and ill defined.
- His inflexibility and blindness ill become a leader, for a leader must temper justice with mercy.
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- Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could ill imagine in a woman?
Synonyms
* illyAntonyms
* wellDerived terms
* bode ill * ill afford * ill-formed * ill-gotten * ill-thought-outNoun
(en noun)- That makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of.
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- Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill .