Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TILL'ER, n.

1. One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
2. The bar or lever employed to turn the rudder of a ship.
3. A small drawer; a till.
4. Among farmers, the shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; also, the sprout or young tree that springs from the root or stump.
5. A young timber tree. [Local.]