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Your tiller may be made of steel wire running through the head of the rudder-post, which is made of iron wire; the man who makes your engine will do this for you.

From Harper's Young People, July 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

The bar or lever that is fixed to the top of the rudder-post is called a tiller.

From Boys' Book of Model Boats by Yates, Raymond F. (Raymond Francis)

When they had gone far enough, she tied one end of the cord to the rudder-post of her canal-boat.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Dodge, Mary Mapes

A small wheel about 1 inch in diameter, with an edge filed in it, is soldered to the top of the rudder-post.

From Boys' Book of Model Boats by Yates, Raymond F. (Raymond Francis)

There was a very short iron tiller in the rudder-post.

From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous