different between planter vs tiller

English

Etymology

plant +? -er

Noun

planter (plural planters)

1. One who plants something.
   • 2002, Jill Christman, Darkroom: A Family Exposure (page 100)

     She didn't use any magic truth serums, nor did she suggest hypnotherapy, but barring this, she personified the greatest enemy of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation — an evil planter of false memories.

2. A box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor.
3. (historical) Any of the early English settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.
4. A machine used for planting seeds.
5. The owner of a plantation.

Translations

Anagrams

• pantler, replant

Cebuano

Etymology

Back-formation from planteran.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: plan?ter

Noun

planter

1. a frameup; a false incrimination of an innocent person

Danish

Noun

planter c

1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

planter

1. present of plante

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch planter. Equivalent to planten +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?n.t?r/
• Hyphenation: plan?ter

Noun

planter m (plural planters)

1. A planter, one who plants (usually plants or perhaps fungi).
2. A farmer, a tiller; in particular the owner or operator of a plantation, a planter.
3. A founder of a colony, a settler, a coloniser.

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin plant?re, present active infinitive of plant?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??.te/

Verb

planter

1. (transitive) to plant
2. (transitive) to drive in (a nail, stake etc.)
3. (transitive) to pitch (a tent)
4. (transitive, informal) to flake, leave someone behind, by not showing up (for a meeting, date)
5. (transitive, intransitive, computing) to crash
6. (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fall off
7. (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fail, to not succeed
8. (reflexive, informal, se planter, a vehicle and etc) to break down
9. (transitive, slang) to stab with a knife
   • 1981, Jean-Marc Ligny, Furia!, ?ISBN

     Il se dit qu'il ne ressortira plus jamais de cette cour des miracles, que dans dix minutes un petit nerveux va déboucher d'une venelle avec un couteau et le planter aussi sec.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• planter le décor
• se planter

Related terms

• plante
• plantation

Further reading

• “planter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• parlent

Latin

Verb

planter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plant?

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French planteur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pl??t??]

Noun

planter

1. a planter; one that plants something

   Synonym: agrikilter

Related terms

• plantasion
• plant
• plante

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

planter m or f

1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

planter

1. present of plante

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• plantar

Noun

planter m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of plante

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tilier; equivalent to till +? -er.

Noun

tiller (plural tillers)

1. A person who tills; a farmer.
   • 2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 63:

     In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.

2. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.

Synonyms

• (machine): cultivator

Derived terms

• Tiller
• Tillerson

Translations

See also

• motor plow

Etymology 2

From Middle English *til?er, *tel?er, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-Germanic *telgô, *telg?, *telguz (“twig, branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *delg?- (“to split, divide, cut, carve”). Cognate with Dutch telg (“descendant, scion, offshoot, shoot”), Dutch Low Saxon telge (“twig, branch”), German Zelge (“twig, branch, bough”), Swedish telning (“branch, scion, sapling”), Icelandic tág (“willow-twig”).

Alternative forms

• tillow

Noun

tiller (plural tillers)

1. (obsolete) A young tree.

   • first you must provide you of a Ladder to ascend the top of your Pit : this they usually make of a curved Tiller fit to apply to the convex shape of the heap

2. A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.

Verb

tiller (third-person singular simple present tillers, present participle tillering, simple past and past participle tillered)

1. (intransitive) To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving”), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin t?la (“web”).

Noun

tiller (plural tillers)

1. (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.

   • You can shoot in a tiller.

2. (nautical) A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
3. (nautical) The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
4. (aviation, by extension) A steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or tailwheel to provide steering during taxi.
5. A handle; a stalk.
6. The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
7. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.

   • But search her cabinet, and thou shalt find
     Each tiller there with love-epistles lin'd

Derived terms

• steady hand on the tiller
• tiller extension
• tiller truck
• tillerman

Translations

References

• tiller in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• tiller in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• rillet