TILL'ED, participle passive Cultivated; prepared for seed and kept clean. TILL'ER, noun One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman. 1. The bar or lever employed to turn the rudder of a ship. 2. A small drawer; a till. 3. Among farmers, the shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; also, the sprout or young tree that springs from the root or stump. 4. A young timber tree. [Local.] TILL'ER, verb intransitive To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as we say, wheat or rye tillers; it spreads by tillering. The common orthography is tiller. Sir Joseph Banks writes it tillow.
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