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noun

Tilt n.

A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

(Naut.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.

Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth.

Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon.

Tilt n.

A thrust, as with a lance.

A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.

See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.

Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

Full tilt, with full force.

verb

Tilt v. t. (past & past part. tilted; pres. part. tilting) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

Tilt v. t.

To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

To point or thrust, as a lance. "Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance."

To point or thrust a weapon at. (Obs.)

To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

Tilt v. i.

To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances. "He tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast." "Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast." "But in this tournament can no man tilt."

To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. "The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back."

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Etymology of 'Tilt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tilt" Quotes from Famous Books

... wings, and uplifted parti-colored bill, he looks unnerved and limp by the effort it has cost him. But in the next instant a gnat flies past. How quickly the bird recovers itself, and charges full-tilt at his passing dinner! The sharp click of his little bill proves that he has not missed his aim; and after careering about in the air another minute or two, looking for more game to snap up on the wing, he will return to the same perch and take up his ...

— Bird Neighbors • Neltje Blanchan

... be. Milly's mission came to her, as it were, heaven-sent, it seems to me," she added in a reverent tone; "but you must seek this out to do Matty any good, and face those dreadful relations of hers. Your father and mother will never listen to it, and they will be right. Do not try to run a tilt against ...

— Uncle Rutherford's Nieces - A Story for Girls • Joanna H. Mathews

... not to be separated too long from my friends, I sent them ahead two hours before me, appointing a rendezvous in a log tilt that we have built in the woods as a halfway house. There is no one living on all that long coast-line, and to provide against accidents—which have happened more than once—we built this hut to keep dry clothing, food, ...

— Adrift on an Ice-Pan • Wilfred T. Grenfell

... deeper mystery, as if astrology, come in from the distant stars, lifts here a warning finger. But M—— was brought up beside the sea, and she has a sailor's instinct for the weather. At the first preliminary shifting of the heavens, too slight for my coarser senses, she will tilt her nose and look around, then pronounce the coming of a storm. To her, therefore, I leave all questions of umbrellas and raincoats, and on her decision ...

— Chimney-Pot Papers • Charles S. Brooks

... and gentlemen; but his penny-worths are rampant, for you may buy three whole brawns cheaper than three boar's heads of him painted. He was sometimes the terrible coat of Mars, but is now for more merciful battles in the tilt-yard, where whosoever is victorious, the spoils are his. He is an art in England but in Wales nature, where they are born with heraldry in their mouths, and each name ...

— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle

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