tiller

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Move the tiller the wrong way at 30 knots and you're going to have one hell of a crash.

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Quick take

a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass

noun

someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)

noun

lever used to turn the rudder on a boat

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tiller.

noun

a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass

noun

someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)

noun

lever used to turn the rudder on a boat

noun

a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)

verb

grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

Example sentences

Move the tiller the wrong way at 30 knots and you're going to have one hell of a crash.

It's hard to remember to tiller the rudder and trim the sails at the same time.

Can we show that the internet allows everyone's hand to be on the tiller so to speak?

But dealing with them requires more than a nudge on the tiller when something is headed off course.

And these young entrepreneurs, for the most part, are simply not prepared to have a steady hand at the tiller in a storm.

I'd be happy to be wrong, but it's personally a moot point for me, as my old JD tiller from the 70's still runs perfectly.

If Benz received a patent for steering a moving vehicle by means of a tiller I would have disagreed with that since all they did was take the idea from a boat.

To push the analogy further...In the first 30 years of the automobile, tiller, steering wheel, or pedals were largely irrelevant.

> The reason for this is really very simple: there's no one at the tiller, printing money to tamp down the speculationSo who's printing gold to temp down the speculation in that?

"Where Jobs wanted solitude and a environment free of people making suggestions, Cook seems to be pushing the tiller in the opposite direction, opting instead for dialog when it comes to making decisions for the company.