As nouns the difference between miller and tiller
is that
miller is a person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flour mill while
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.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
miller English
See also
* Millward
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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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