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[‘tiller’ and ‘tiller’ have the same pronunciation; ‘teller’ and ‘tiler’ are pronounced differently]

“Tiller” (noun) is ‘a gardening too which the gardeners use to ‘till’ the land’,

e.g.

The gardening tools include tillers, lawn mowers, hedge cutters, hand saws, sprinklers.

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“Tiller” (noun) is ‘a long bar or handle attached to the rudder at the back, and is used to steer (control) the boat’, (rudder = the part of a boat that is in water, usually a wooden or metal piece of board attached at the back, and is moved from side to side by the tiller above to steer the boat),

e.g.

The boat was tossed violently by the thrash of waves and the fisherman had difficulty holding on to the tiller and steer the boat to safety.

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“Teller” (noun) is ‘a person who tells something, such as a fortune teller; a person whose job is to receive and pay out cash (money) in a bank; a person who counts votes from a ballot box’,

e.g.

Can a mathematician be a fortune teller?

The number of tellers in a bank depends on the amount of business it does every day.

There were five tellers, one from each political party, to count the ballots (votes).

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“Tiler” (noun) is ‘a person who lays tiles {tile = a piece of baked mud (clay) used to cover roofs, walls, floors of buildings}’,

e.g.

It is said that several of the famous painters in Paris were once tilers in their early stages of life.

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