TILLER in a Sentence

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Example sentences for TILLER, such as:

1. Fearing the wind might shift suddenly and capsize the skiff, Tom kept one hand on the tiller at all times.
2. Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted.
3. The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest, felt like the Tartar, when he holds back his fiery steed by clutching its jaw.

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 Meanings and Examples of TILLER
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tiller
 n.  lever used to turn a rudder and steer a boat; drawer in table, chest, or counter
Classic Sentence:
1  Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
2  The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest, felt like the Tartar, when he holds back his fiery steed by clutching its jaw.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
3  But the whale-boat has no seat astern, no sofa of that sort whatever, and no tiller at all.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
4  Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
5  For while I clung to my appointed charge and governed our course, I pulled the tiller with me in my fall, and the shock as I slipped wrenched it away.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
Example Sentence:
1  Fearing the wind might shift suddenly and capsize the skiff, Tom kept one hand on the tiller at all times.