喜樂美語
  1. 1舵柄（小船上用來控制方向的把手）；另有「中耕機」與稻麥的「分蘗」兩義

    On a small boat, the tiller is the long wooden or metal handle attached to the rudder. You hold it and push it sideways to steer. The thing that catches every out is that it works backwards: push the tiller to the left and the boat turns right. Anyone who has sailed a has spent a first afternoon getting this wrong. Big ships have a wheel instead; tillers belong to sailing , small yachts and boats. Because you steer with it, the word carries a figure of speech: 'at the tiller' means in charge, steering the whole enterprise — 'with a steady hand at the tiller, the company came through the crisis'. It is the same picture as 'at the helm', just a smaller boat. Two other meanings share the spelling. A tiller is also a machine for breaking up soil in a garden — a rotary tiller, what a gardener would call 中耕機 — and, in gardening and farming, a new shoot that grows up from the base of a grass plant like rice or wheat. Rice farmers count tillers, because more tillers means more grain.

組成The boat handle comes through Middle English tilier, from a word for a beam or stock of wood — the piece of timber fitted to the rudder. The plant shoot is a separate word: Old English telgor, telgra, meaning a twig, branch or shoot, from a Germanic root for a branch. Same spelling today, two unrelated histories.

原始詞典資料15 筆記錄

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Tillername

  • 1

    A surname originating as an occupation.

  • 2

    An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.

  • 3

    A suburb of Trondheim, formerly a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.

tillernoun詞源 1/ˈtɪlə/

  • 1

    A person who tills; a farmer.

    • In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.
  • 2

    A machine that mechanically tills the soil.

tillernoun詞源 2/ˈtɪlə/

  • 1

    obsoleteA young tree.

    • first you must provide you of a Ladder to ascend the top of your Pit : this they usually make of a curved Tiller fit to apply to the convex shape of the heap
  • 2

    A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.

tillerverb詞源 2/ˈtɪlə/

  • 1

    To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.

tillernoun詞源 3/ˈtɪlə/

  • 1

    archerygovernmenthobbiesThe stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.

    • You can shoot in a tiller.
  • 2

    nauticaltransportA bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).

  • 3

    nauticaltransportThe handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.

  • 4

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or tailwheel to provide steering during taxi.

  • 5

    A handle; a stalk.

  • 6

    The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.

  • 7

    obsoletedialectalA small drawer; a till.

    • But search her cabinet, and thou shalt find Each tiller there with love-epistles lin'd

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