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Bar on a boat
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tiller
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tiller is a lever to provide leverage for the helmsman to turn the rudder of a ship. Tiller may also refer to: Steering A steering device present on some very early automobiles before the steering wheel became the only car steering utility A small steering ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tiller \Till"er\, n. [AS. telgor a small branch. Cf. Till to cultivate.] (Bot.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker. A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump. A young timber tree. [Prov. ...
Usage examples of tiller.
Pete could just see Rusa and Arrach in the stern, fighting the tiller.
He stood with tiller in hand, keen eyes asquint against the sky, watching the sail and calling sharp commands which the others instantly obeyed.
Red Lion, the carack responded like a mettlesome steed to the tillers.
Schreuder stepped away from the tiller bar and shrugged out of the stiff dolman tunic.
We learn about booms and mainsheets and downhauls and the parts of the sail and how to hold the tiller and tuck the sail in just so, which I think is just fine till one day Tink and I are out in a boat with about ten seamen, which is going into a small deserted cay to look for fresh water.
According to these books, the result of having lived with a brain which we think we direct using a kind of tiller, but which actually is continually affected by cross-winds, occasional storms, rain and warm sun that provokes us into lazy days, is that we have evolved a series of memories with different flavours.
These kames and sand plains, because of the silicious nature of their materials and the very porous nature of the soil which they afford, are commonly sterile, or at most render a profit to the tiller by dint of exceeding care.
Wanaka gestured Mike to the tiller, and headed for the hatch where Keo had disappeared.
Jack dropped all, scrambled forward, caught two turns round the kevel and slid back to the tiller.
Low in the water, veiled by flying white-caps, they came--Boreland and Harlan bailing desperately, and in the stern Kayak Bill, his hand still on the tiller, keeping the oarless boat steady a-top the swift, rushing wave that was sweeping them on to the beach!
Only Donfil in the triangular bow section and Ogg at the tiller in the stern could judge what should be done.
I saw the poor, and the degraded, and the racked, and the priest-ridden, tillers and peoplers of the soil, which made the substance beneath the glittering and false surface,--the body of that vast empire, of which I had hitherto beheld only the face, and THAT darkly, and for the most part covered by a mask!
I feel the frozen skin of my cheeks stretching under my thermal mask as I grin idiotically, a rictal grimace of terror and the sheer joy of mindless speed, my arms and hands adjusting constantly, automatically, instantly to changes in the ice-axe tiller and the ice-hammer brake.
Salvation Yeo as he stood just in front of Amyas, the tiller in his hand.
Jarvis and Webster, fall to baling: and you, Prout, hand us over the tiller and dig out something for breakfast.