rototiller

or ro·to-till·er, ro·to till·er

[ roh-tuh-til-er ]

noun

1. a motorized device having spinning blades perpendicular to the ground and arranged like spokes, used for tilling soil.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rototiller¹

First recorded in 1920–25; rot(ary) + -o- + tiller ¹

Example Sentences

“He had no school at that point, and he and the foreman, Lowell Frank, really hit it off. Early would sit outside and watch them, and one day Lowell invited him to join them. After that, Early was out there at 8 a.m. every day for six weeks, and he got to do everything, even pushing the rototiller. He went to landscaping school for six weeks, and it was amazing.”

From Los Angeles Times

Once you have a lush carpet of weeds, remove them with a rake, hoe or rototiller.

From Seattle Times

While many of us will soon be out there making like a human rototiller — turning the vegetable beds in the name of what we were taught “soil preparation” required — Charles Dowding takes a different tack.

From Seattle Times

Michaels said it looks like a field that’s been hit by a rototiller.

From Washington Post

I powered through them, one after another, my hips turning like a rototiller.

From Washington Post