Also 9 dial. tiller: see also FILLER2. [f. THILL1 + -ER1.] = next. Also attrib.
1552. Huloet, Thyller of a carte, veredus, di.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 36. Hole bridle and saddle, whit lether and nall, With collers and harneis, for thiller and all.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 330. His Thiller fell and put his shoulder clean out of joynt.
1640. Hexham, Princ. Art Milit., III. 5. A halfe Canon … vpon its carriage, drawne with seven couple of horse, and a Thiller horse.
1733. Tull, Horse-Hoeing Husb., xxiii. 363. Limbers,… also called Shafts, Sharps, and Thills; from whence the Horse that goes in them is call’d a Thiller.
1893. Stratford-on-Avon Herald, 24 Feb., 4/2. 3 Sets of Harness, Thillers’ and Trace Gears.
