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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

... outside. Several riding horses were hitched up to the palings at a right angle with the Bar, and a bullock dray loaded with wool-bales—on the top of which a whole family appeared to reside under a canvas tilt—was drawn up in the road. The beasts were a repulsive sight, with whip-weals on their panting sides, their great heads bowed under the yoke and their slavering tongues protruding. Bridget looked at everything ...

— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

... accident than study. We are transported to the gay seat of Moorish power, and witness the animating bustle, its pomp and its revelry, prolonged to the last hour of its existence. The bull-fight of the Vivarrambla, the graceful tilt of reeds, the amorous knights with their quaint significant devices, the dark Zegris, or Gomeres, and the royal, self-devoted Abencerrages, the Moorish maiden radiant at the tourney, the moonlight serenade, the stolen interview, where the lover gives vent to all the intoxication ...

— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott

... suspicious of anything in the shape of a joke or laugh on the part of an outsider in their own particular dust-hole. He seemed to be always thinking, and thinking a lot; when his hands were not both engaged, he would tilt his hat forward and scratch the base of his skull with his little finger, and let his jaw hang. But his intellectual powers were mostly concentrated on a doubtful swingle-tree, a misfitting collar, or that there bay or piebald (on the off or near side) ...

— Over the Sliprails • Henry Lawson

... thought came sweeping. She clutched on to it; held it fast. Into her tread it put a spring; to her chin gave a brave tilt. If everything failed, if of the telegram nothing came, why, at least she had the telegram!—was making for the Agency under a direct command from her George. The thought swelled her with confidence and comfort. How warm ...

— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson

... tough old seasoned warriors. And, prudence apart, James, at five-and-twenty, absolutely glowed with shame at the thought that every one of his companions had borne arms for at least ten years past, while his arrows had no mark but the target, his lances had all been broken in the tilt-yard. It was this argument that above all served to pacify old Bairdsbrae; though he confessed himself very uneasy as to the prejudice it would create in Scotland, and so evidently loathed the expedition, ...

— The Caged Lion • Charlotte M. Yonge

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