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Tilled

TILL'ED, pp. Cultivated; prepared for See d and kept clean. TILL'ER, n. One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman. 1. The bar or lever employed to turn the rudder of a ship. 2. A small drawer; a til...

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TILL'ED, pp. Cultivated; prepared for See d and kept clean.

TILL'ER, n. One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.

1. The bar or lever employed to turn the rudder of a ship.

2. A small drawer; a till.

3. Among farmers,the shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; also, the sprout or young tree that springs from the root or stump.

4. A young timber tree. [Local.]

TILL'ER, v.i. To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as we say,wheat or rye tillers; it spreads by tillering. The common orthography is tiller. Sir Joseph Banks writes it tillow.

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