tiller

What it means

1. A person who tills; a farmer.

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

   2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 63

2. A machine that mechanically tills the soil.

   Synonyms: cultivator

In a sentence

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

2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 63

Where it comes from

1. Middle Englishtilier
2. Englishtiller

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