| 单词 | tiller |
| 释义 | tiller (once / 2399 pages) 1n 2n 3nv The tiller is what steers a boat — specifically, the handle attached to the rudder. Tillers are generally found on smaller boats because it would take too much force to steer larger ships with hand tillers. If you have never been on a sailboat before, it may take you a few minutes to figure out how to move the tiller to smoothly steer the boat because you might move the tiller in the opposite direction that you want the boat to go. If you want the bow of the boat to go starboard (right), for example, you need to move the tiller to the port side (left) and vice versa. Rapid back and forth movement on the tiller helps create drag and slows the boat. WORD FAMILYtiller: tillered, tillering, tillers+/till: tillable, tillage, tilled, tiller, tilling, tills/tillage: tillages/tilled: untilled/tilling: tillings USAGE EXAMPLES"Extraordinary," she said, crediting White House staffer Jeff Tiller with proposing the light display. Los Angeles Times(Dec 21, 2016) “Rigor is the tiller on your boat,” she said. New York Times(Nov 24, 2016) Perhaps his deft presidential touch on the tiller of the ship of state will soon have the United States sailing toward greatness. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) 1 1n someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops) Hyper farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster a person who operates a farm 2n a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper cultivator harrow a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil disc harrow, disk harrowa harrow with a series of disks set on edge at an angle farm machine a machine used in farming n lever used to turn the rudder on a boat 3Hyper lever a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum 1n a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass Hyper shoot a new branch 2v grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers Syn|Hyper stool acquire, develop, get, grow, produce come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) |
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