tillers
Grass plant shoots
Tillers are people who till soil—farmers or agricultural workers who cultivate land by plowing, turning, and preparing it for planting.
The word carries a slightly literary or historical quality: tillers of the earth.
Separately, a tiller is a lever or handle used to steer a boat, attached to the rudder.
On plants, tillers are shoots that sprout from the base of a stem, especially in grasses and grains.
Vessel's steering mechanism
- rudderPivoting stern blade
- steeringControlling direction of movement
- boatWatercraft for travel
- sailboatWind-propelled watercraft
dinghy · yacht · cockpit · handle · wooden · push-pull · pintle · gudgeon
Powered soil cultivator
- plowTool for turning soil
- harrowToothed soil-breaking implement
- hoeWeeding and tilling implement
- discFlat circular object
spade · tractor · plowshare · moldboard · furrow · seedbed · attachment · garden
One who raises plants
- plowmanOne who furrows fields
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- husbandmanOne who farms land
- sharecropperFarmer paying rent in crops
crofter · homesteader · smallholder · planter · sower · agriculturalist · gardener · yeoman
helm
Vessel's steering mechanism
sailboat · dinghy · yacht · cockpit · handle · wooden · push-pull · pintle · gudgeon · helmsman
rotavator
Powered soil cultivator
disc · spade · tractor · plowshare · moldboard · furrow · seedbed · attachment · garden · motorized
grower
One who raises plants
- plowmanOne who furrows fields
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- husbandmanOne who farms land
sharecropper · crofter · homesteader · smallholder · planter · sower · agriculturalist · gardener · yeoman · farmhand
- crop farmingharvesting, planting, tractors, fertilizing, fertilizer
- seafaringship, sailors, ships, sail, sailor
- farm equipmenttractor, tractors, plow, plows, plough
- Farm Resourcestractors, seeds, fertilizer, soil, barns
- rural folkpeasantry, countryfolk, farmers, farmhands, farm workers
- tillage toolsplow, harrow, hoe, rototiller, rotavator
tillerslandlords
Rental property owners
landowners · consumers · absentee owners · proprietors · aristocrats
- power tillerMotorized soil cultivation machine
- tilled soilPlowed land for farming
- firm hand on the tillerAuthoritative control over direction
- steady hand on the tillerCalm, competent leadership
- hand tillerManual soil-loosening tool