Translation guide
A tiller is a lever used to steer a boat, or a person/thing that tills soil. This guide covers both meanings.
The handle or lever used to turn a boat's rudder.
Standard nautical term for a tiller.
彼は舵柄を握って船を操縦した。
He steered the boat by holding the tiller.
Loanword from English, used in sailing contexts.
ティラーを引くと船が右に曲がる。
Pulling the tiller turns the boat to the right.
A farmer or laborer who prepares land for crops by plowing or cultivating.
General term for a cultivator or tiller of land.
彼は熱心な耕作者だ。
He is a dedicated tiller of the soil.
Farmer, often implying one who works the land.
農夫たちは春に畑を耕す。
The farmers till the fields in spring.
A mechanical device used to break up and turn over soil, such as a rototiller or cultivator.
Power tiller or cultivator, commonly used in farming and gardening.
耕運機で畑を耕した。
I tilled the field with a tiller.
Loanword often used for garden tillers or rototillers.
I bought a small tiller and tilled the garden soil.