tiller
Steers small boats
A tiller is a lever or handle used to steer a boat, attached to the rudder.
By extension, someone at the tiller is in control of any enterprise.
Separately, a tiller is a shoot growing from the base of a plant, especially a cereal crop, or a person or machine that tills soil: The garden tiller broke down before we finished.
Pivoting stern blade
- steeringControlling direction of movement
- helmVessel's steering mechanism
- navigateGuide through terrain
- sailboatWind-propelled watercraft
yacht · boat · dinghy · sloop · course · direction · control · captain
Tool for turning soil
- furrowNarrow trench in earth
- cultivateGrow or develop purposefully
- soilGround matter for planting
- seedbedPrepared ground for sprouting
harrow · disc · row · planting · sow · field · acreage · crop
New plant emergence
- suckerEasily fooled person
- offshootDerivative outgrowth
- regrowthGrowing back again
- stoolBackless sitting furniture
coppice · basal · stem · runner · stolon · rhizome · propagate · cutting
Ground matter for planting
- bedsFurniture for sleeping
- weedingExtracting undesired vegetation
- hoeWeeding and tilling implement
- spadeFlat-bladed digging implement
compost · mulch · planting · earth · rows · vegetables · herbs · flowers
One who furrows fields
- husbandmanOne who farms land
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- smallholderFarmer of limited land
- sharecropperFarmer paying rent in crops
cropper · agronomist · planter · homesteader · sodbuster · fieldworker · grower · yeoman
rudder
Pivoting stern blade
- steeringControlling direction of movement
- helmVessel's steering mechanism
- navigateGuide through terrain
sailboat · yacht · boat · dinghy · sloop · course · direction · control · captain · skipper
plow
Tool for turning soil
seedbed · harrow · disc · row · planting · sow · field · acreage · crop · rotary
sprout
New plant emergence
stool · coppice · basal · stem · runner · stolon · rhizome · propagate · cutting · divide
soil
Ground matter for planting
spade · compost · mulch · planting · earth · rows · vegetables · herbs · flowers · seeds
plowman
One who furrows fields
- husbandmanOne who farms land
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- smallholderFarmer of limited land
sharecropper · cropper · agronomist · planter · homesteader · sodbuster · fieldworker · grower · yeoman
- nauticalanchor, anchor chain, anchors, boat, boats
- nautical termsahoy, afloat, aye aye, aye-aye, becalmed
- sailingsailboat, sailing, sails, sailboats, catamaran
- emergency vehiclesfire truck, ambulance, police car, cop car, rescue truck
- farm toolspitchfork, hoe, rake, shovel, plow
- farmworkersfarmhand, farmworker, farm laborer, field hand, farm hand
tillercity dweller
Urban area inhabitant
urbanite · landlord · absentee owner · landowner · industrialist
- till death do us partMatrimonial permanence oath
- till we meet again
- till the cows come homeFor an extremely long time
- till deathUntil life ends
- till the end of timeFor all eternity
- till death us do partWedding oath of permanence
till, tilling, tilled, tillage, tillers, rototiller, tillable, rototilled, tillerman