Tiller

(noun.) lever used to turn the rudder on a boat.

(noun.) someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops).

(noun.) a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass.

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• The rudder was of the pattern used on sailing-vessels, and was moved by a tiller. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The exposed machinery creaked and groaned, the unguarded paddle-wheels revolved ponderously and splashed a great deal of water, the tiller was badly placed for steering. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The tiller-ropes of another vessel were carried away and she, too, dropped helplessly back. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Tillers of the Soil no Longer Brothers of the Ox. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Nothing was more needed and sought after for thirty centuries among tillers of the soil than a good plough, and what finally supplied it was not necessity alone, but improved brains. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The Sudras, he says, were the tillers of the soil. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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