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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

... with a tilt of the shoulders. "One enemy more or less doesn't matter. I'm not afraid of anything save this fool heart of mine. If he says an ill word to Gretchen, and I hear of it, I'll cane the blackguard, for that's what he is at bottom. Well, ...

— The Goose Girl • Harold MacGrath

... fisheries of the Grand Banks to do with a Greater Britain Overseas? You would not ask that question if you could see the sealing fleets set out in spring; or the whaling crews drive after a great fin-back up north of Tilt Cove; or the schooners go out with their dories in tow for the Grand Banks fisheries. Asked what impressed him most in the royal tour of the present King of England across Canada and Newfoundland several years ago, a prominent official ...

— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut

... indicates 'call the alphabet.'" The numbers refer to the number of raps or table-tilts, etc., given by the spirits in answer to questions asked them. When the alphabet is called for, some one of the circle slowly calls out each letter of the alphabet, in regular order, until a rap or table-tilt indicate that the right letter has been indicated; this letter should then be written down, and the alphabet again called, until the next letter is indicated; and so on until the message is completed. For instance, the name "John" would be spelt out as J-O-H-N, four callings of the alphabet ...

— Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers • Bhakta Vishita

... his face impassive. But his eyes scrutinized with fierce eagerness the immense webs of steel posts and diagonals that ran up on either side, under the grand vertical curves of the top-chords, almost to the peaks of the cantilever towers. He had to tilt back his head to see the tops of those huge steel columns, which reared their peaks two hundred and fifty feet above the bridge-floor level and a round four hundred feet above ...

— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

... Spragg thrust his hands into his waistcoat pockets, and began to tilt his chair till he remembered there was no wall to meet it. He regained his balance and said: "Wouldn't a couple of good orchestra seats ...

— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton

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