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Tilted   /tˈɪltəd/  /tˈɪltɪd/   Listen
verb
Tilt  v. t.  (past & past part. tilted; pres. part. tilting)  To cover with a tilt, or awning.


Tilt  v. t.  
1.
To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
2.
To point or thrust, as a lance. "Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance."
3.
To point or thrust a weapon at. (Obs.)
4.
To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.


Tilt  v. i.  
1.
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."
2.
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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"Tilted" Quotes from Famous Books



... his wife sat opposite each other. I put three pillows under my head, the better to watch them, when suddenly the yacht tilted Mrs. Jimmie and her chair over backward. Jimmie saw her going and reached to save her. But he forgot to set down his soup-plate. The result was that she got Jimmie's soup in her face, and that he slid clear across the table on his hands and knees, taking china and table-cloth with ...
— As Seen By Me • Lilian Bell
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... servants, went ashore, all but two who watched the ship and abode their turn. They went well-weaponed, for both the master and Walter deemed wariness wisdom, lest all might not be so good as it seemed. They took of their sail-cloths ashore and tilted them in on the meadow betwixt the house and the ship, and the carle brought them what he had for their avail, of fresh fruits, and cheeses, and milk, and wine, and cyder, and honey, and there they feasted nowise ...
— The Wood Beyond the World • William Morris
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... will be remembered; feels this to be the moment of her immortality. Her form is all but in profile, swaying far forward, but her face is full-turned to us. Her arms float upon the air. Below the stark ruff of muslin about her waist, her legs are as a tilted pair of compasses; one point in the air, the other impinging the ground. One tiptoe poised ever so lightly upon the earth, as though the muslin wings at her shoulders were not quite strong enough to bear her up into the sky! So she remains, hovering betwixt two elements; a creature ...
— Yet Again • Max Beerbohm
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... at the face beside her—infused with a triumphant power and passion. She seemed to shrink upon herself, and her head fell back against one of the supports of the pergola. One of the blue lights from above fell with ghastly effect upon the delicate tilted face and closed eyes. Cliffe bent over her in a sharp alarm, and saw ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
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... said a voice immediately overhead; and we looked up. A round-faced man was gazing down on us from the tilted bulwarks. "You might ha' given ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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