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til⋅ler

2  [til-er]
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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 ME < AF teiler weaver's beam; OF teilier < ML tēlārium, equiv. to L tēl(a) warp + -ārium -ary

Related forms:
till⋅er⋅less, adjective
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Word Origin & History

tiller 
1353, "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 1625.
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