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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TILT, n.
1. A tent; a covering over head.
2. The cloth covering of a cart or wagon.
3. The cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning of canvas or other cloth, extended over the stern sheets of a boat.
TILT, v.t. To cover with a cloth or awning.
TILT, n. [See the verb.] A thrust; as a tilt with a lance.
1. Formerly, a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; as tilts and tournaments.
2. A large hammer; a tilt-hammer; used in iron manufactures.
3. Inclination forward; as the tilt of a cask; or a cask is a-tilt.
TILT, v.t. [L. tollo.]
1. To incline; to raise one end, as a cask, 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 hammer or forge with a tilt-hammer or tilt; as, to tilt steel to render it more ductile.
4. To cover with a tilt.
TILT, v.i. To run or ride and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting at each other on horseback.
1. To fight with rapiers.
Swords out and tilting one at other's breast.
2. To rush, as in combat.
3. To play unsteadily; to ride, float and toss.
The fleet swift tilting o'er the surges flew.
4. To lean; to fall, as on one side.
The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.
TILT'-BOAT, n. A boat covered with canvas or other cloth.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances [syn: joust, tilt]
2: a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument" [syn: controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing]
3: a slight but noticeable partiality; "the court's tilt toward conservative rulings"
4: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right" [syn: tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning]
5: pitching dangerously to one side [syn: rock, careen, sway, tilt] v
1: to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister" [syn: lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle]
2: heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting" [syn: cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch]
3: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" [syn: careen, wobble, shift, tilt]
4: charge with a tilt

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English teld, telte tent, canopy, from Old English teld; akin to Old High German zelt tent Date: 15th century a canopy for a wagon, boat, or stall II. transitive verb Date: 15th century to cover or provide with a tilt III. noun Etymology: ⁴tilt Date: 1507 1. a. a contest on horseback in which two combatants charging with lances or similar weapons try to unhorse each other ; joust b. a tournament of tilts 2. a. dispute, contention b. speed — used in the phrase full tilt 3. a. the act of tilting ; the state or position of being tilted b. a sloping surface c. slant, bias <a tilt toward military involvement> 4. any of various contests resembling or suggesting tilting with lances • tilt adjective IV. verb Etymology: Middle English tulten, tilten to fall over, cause to fall, from Old English *tyltan, *tieltan, akin to Old English tealt unstable, tealtian to totter Date: 1594 transitive verb 1. to cause to have an inclination 2. a. to point or thrust in or as if in a tilt <tilt a lance> b. to charge against <tilt an adversary> intransitive verb 1. a. to move or shift so as to lean or incline ; slant b. to incline, tend, or become drawn toward an opinion, course of action, or one side of a controversy 2. a. to engage in a combat with lances ; joust b. to make an impetuous attack <tilt at social evils> • tiltable adjective • tilter noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 intr. & tr. assume or cause to assume a sloping position; heel over. 2 intr. (foll. by at) strike, thrust, or run at, with a weapon, esp. in jousting. 3 intr. (foll. by with) engage in a contest. 4 tr. forge or work (steel etc.) with a tilt-hammer. --n. 1 the act or an instance of tilting. 2 a sloping position. 3 (of medieval knights etc.) the act of charging with a lance against an opponent or at a mark, done for exercise or as a sport. 4 an encounter between opponents; an attack esp. with argument or satire (have a tilt at). 5 = tilt-hammer. Phrases and idioms: full (or at full) tilt 1 at full speed. 2 with full force. tilt-hammer a heavy pivoted hammer used in forging. tilt-yard hist. a place where tilts (see sense 3 of n.) took place. Derivatives: tilter n. Etymology: ME tilte perh. f. an OE form rel. to tealt unsteady f. Gmc: weapon senses of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tilt Tilt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting.] To cover with a tilt, or awning.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tilt Tilt, v. t. [OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. t["o]lt an ambling pace, t["o]lta to amble. Cf. Totter.] 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. --J. Philips. 3. To point or thrust a weapon at. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. 4. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tilt Tilt, n. [OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS. teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw. t["a]lt, tj["a]ll, Dan. telt, and ASThe beteldan to cover.] 1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. --Denham. 2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. 3. (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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tilt 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. --Shak. Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast. --Shak. But in this tournament can no man tilt. --Tennyson. The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the ?urges flew. --Pope. 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. --Grew.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tilt Tilt, n. 1. A thrust, as with a lance. --Addison. 2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament. 3. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary. 4. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. Full tilt, with full force. --Dampier.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tilts, tilting, tilted) 1. If you tilt an object or if it tilts, it moves into a sloping position with one end or side higher than the other. She tilted the mirror and began to comb her hair... Leonard tilted his chair back on two legs and stretched his long body... The boat instantly tilted, filled and sank. VERB: V n, V n adv/prep, V 2. If you tilt part of your body, usually your head, you move it slightly upwards or to one side. Mari tilted her head back so that she could look at him... His wife tilted his head to the side and inspected the wound... She tilted her face to kiss me quickly on the chin. VERB: V n with adv, V n prep, V n • Tilt is also a noun. He opened the rear door for me with an apologetic tilt of his head. N-COUNT: usu sing 3. The tilt of something is the fact that it tilts or slopes, or the angle at which it tilts or slopes. ...calculations based on our understanding of the tilt of the earth's axis... The 3-metre-square slabs are on a tilt. N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of n 4. If a person or thing tilts towards a particular opinion or if something tilts them towards it, they change slightly so that they become more in agreement with that opinion or position. When the political climate tilted towards fundamentalism he was threatened... The paper has done much to tilt American public opinion in favour of intervention. VERB: V prep/adv, V n prep/adv 5. If there is a tilt towards a particular opinion or position, that opinion or position is favoured or begins to be favoured. The chairman also criticised the plan for its tilt towards higher taxes rather than lower spending. N-SING: N towards n 6. A tilt at something is an attempt to win or obtain it. (JOURNALISM) His first tilt at Parliament came in the same year but he failed to win the seat... N-COUNT: N at n 7. To move full tilt or at full tilt means to move with as much speed, energy, or force as possible. As John approached at full tilt he saw a queue of traffic blocking the road... PHRASE: PHR after v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Covering overhead, tent. 2. Awning, canopy. 3. Thrust, pass, allonge, lunge. 4. Encounter, combat (as a practice of arms). joust. 5. Slant (as of a barrel for discharging a liquor), slope, inclination, cant. 6. Tilt-hammer. II. v. a. 1. Slant, slope, incline, cant, tip. 2. Forge (with a tilt-hammer), hammer. 3. Point, thrust. III. v. n. 1. Joust, rush (as in combat), make a rush, make a tilt. 2. Lean, incline, tip. 3. Float, toss, ride unsteadily.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To tilt; to fight with a sword. To run full tilt against one; allusion to the ancient tilling with the lance.

Moby Thesaurus

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