Definition of Tillers

1. Noun. (plural of tiller) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of tiller) ¹

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Definition of Tillers

1. tiller [v] - See also: tiller

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tillers

till
tillable
tillage
tillages
tillandsia
tillandsias
tillaux fracture
tilled
tilled land
tiller
tiller extension
tillered
tillering
tillerman
tillermen
tillers (current term)
tillet
tilleth
tillets
tilley
tilley seed
tilleyite
tillier
tillies
tilliest
tilling
tillings
tillite
tillites
tillman

Literary usage of Tillers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Corn Crops: A Discussion of Maize, Kafirs, and Sorghums as Grown in the by Edward Gerrard Montgomery (1913)
"tillers. — If a young corn plant about 8 inches high is carefully dissected, ... On a cold clay or wet soil very few of the tillers develop; while on a warm ..."

2. A Farmer's Primer on Growing Rice by B. S. Vergara, International Rice Research Institute (1992)
"48 Primary tiller 49 Tillering pattern 50 Production of tillers 51 Productive and nonproductive tillers 52 How to calculate percentage of productive tillers ..."

3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"... a hard one in general; and the chiefs of the Gauls and Iberians were not distinguished for justice or mercy to their herdsmen or tillers of the soil. ..."

4. A History of the Sikhs: From the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the by Joseph Davey Cunningham (1918)
"The Jats are known in the north and west of India as industrious and successful tillers of the soil, and as hardy yeomen equally ready to take up arms and ..."

5. A History of the Sikhs, from the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the by Joseph Davey Cunningham (1918)
"They and high- successful tillers of the soil, and as hardy yeomen equally form, perhaps, the finest rural population in India. On the Jumna their general ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... and the burning of the chateaux of the French Revolution: all being efforts to remove by violence the legal obligations attached to land or its tillers, ..."

7. Sorghum and Its Products: An Account of Recent Investigations Concerning the by F. L. Stewart (1867)
"... but are perfectly analogous to the tillers of Wheat —The Tillering Process common to many of the Grasses, and a wise Provision for their Increase—Under ..."

8. Sorghum and Its Products: An Account of Recent Investigations Concerning the by F. L. Stewart (1867)
"... but are perfectly analogous to the tillers of Wheat —The Tillering Process common to many of the Grasses, and a wise Provision for their Increase—Under ..."

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