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TILT, n.
TILT, v.t. To cover with a cloth or awning.
TILT, n. [See the verb.] A thrust; as a tilt with a lance.
TILT, v.t. [L. tollo.]
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.
A covering overhead;
especially, a tent.
Denham. The cloth covering of a cart or a
wagon.
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. To
cover with a tilt, or awning.
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. J. Philips. To point or thrust a weapon at.
[Obs.]
Beau. *** Fl. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer] as, to
tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
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 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. 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. A
thrust, as with a lance.
Addison. 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. Dampier. | ||||||||