Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Definitioner

Substantiv

1. A person who tills; a farmer.
2. (obsolete) A young tree.
3. (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
4. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
5. A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
6. (nautical) A 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).
7. (nautical) The 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.
8. A handle; a stalk.
9. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.