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/tˈɪltəd/ /tˈɪltɪd/ Listen

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 'Tilted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tilted" Quotes from Famous Books

... honey is stored away—and so that the honey shall not trickle out as it would be likely to do if they were built strictly horizontal—they are tilted up at the outer edge of an angle ...

— A Book of Natural History - Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. • Various

... them, had organized a revolution against the Tribunal, with the object of ducking them. They went into this as though it were a real conspiracy and had signs and passwords. At four o'clock, in turn they sat us on the edge of the great tank on the well deck and splashed us over with paste and then tilted us in. I tried to carry the Frenchman who was acting as barber, with me but only got him half in. But Milani, one of the Italians, swung him over his head plumb into the water. The Frenchman is a rich elephant hunter who is not very popular. When the revolution broke ...

— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis

... conscientiously, and as she talked, she gesticulated with her slim little hands. She was a touching thing sitting there in Hugh's carved throne—he an abdicated monarch at her feet, knee in hand, grizzled head tilted back, hazel eyes raised to her and ...

— Snow-Blind • Katharine Newlin Burt

... still be haunting the withered brain, and the agony of which none of the dead have yet been able to impart a sense to the living, was present in it. As he who was showing us the head, turned it obligingly round in view of the expected shilling, and tilted it forward that we might see the mark of the axe in the severed neck, one seemed to see also the things which those sunken eyes had looked on last: the swarming visages of the crowd, the inner fringe of halberdiers, the black-visored ...

— London Films • W.D. Howells

... of wind from the north catching him unawares half tilted his machine and then as he righted it sent him scurrying at terrific speed southward. At the same time a black cloud, belching and flaming thunder and lightning, swept down on him with almost the ...

— Our Pilots in the Air • Captain William B. Perry

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