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Tiller
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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noun Nautical.
a bar or lever fitted to the head of a rudder, for turning the rudder in steering.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Anglo-French teiler weaver's beam; Old French teilier < Medieval Latin tēlārium, equivalent to Latin tēl(a) warp + -ārium -ary
1375–1425; late Middle English < Anglo-French teiler weaver's beam; Old French teilier < Medieval Latin tēlārium, equivalent to Latin tēl(a) warp + -ārium -ary
Related forms
till·er·less, adjective
verb (used without object)
3.
(of a plant) to put forth new shoots from the root or around the bottom of the original stalk.
Origin:
before 1000; Old English telgor twig, shoot (not recorded in ME); akin to telge rod, Old Norse tjalga branch, telgja to cut
before 1000; Old English telgor twig, shoot (not recorded in ME); akin to telge rod, Old Norse tjalga branch, telgja to cut
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| till2 (tɪl) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to cultivate and work (land) for the raising of crops |
| 2. | another word for plough |
| [Old English tilian to try, obtain; related to Old Frisian tilia to obtain, Old Saxon tilōn to obtain, Old High German zilōn to hasten towards] | |
| 'tillable2 | |
| —adj | |
| 'tiller2 | |
| —n | |
| tiller2 (ˈtɪlə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a shoot that arises from the base of the stem in grasses |
| 2. | a less common name for sapling |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (intr) (of a plant) to produce tillers |
| [Old English telgor twig; related to Icelandic tjalga branch] | |
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Word Origin & History
tiller
mid-14c., "stock of a crossbow," from O.Fr. telier "stock of a crossbow" (c.1200), originally "weaver's beam," from M.L. telarium, from L. tela "web, loom," from PIE *teks-la-, from base *teks- "to weave" (see texture). Meaning "bar to turn the rudder of a boat" first recorded 1620s.
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