Tilt \Tilt\ (t[i^]lt), n. [OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish),
teld, AS. teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel.
tjald, Sw. t[aum]lt, tj[aum]ll, Dan. telt, and AS. beteldan
to cover.]
1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. --Denham.
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2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
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3. (Naut.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning
extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
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Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other
cloth.
Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of
a wagon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tilt \Tilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tilting.]
To cover with a tilt, or awning.
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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.
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2. To point or thrust, as a lance.
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Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. --J.
Philips.
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3. To point or thrust a weapon at. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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4. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel
in order to render it more ductile.
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Tilt \Tilt\, n.
1. A thrust, as with a lance. --Addison.
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2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants
attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
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3. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
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4. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
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Full tilt, with full force. --Dampier.
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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.
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He tilts
With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast.
--Shak.
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Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast.
--Shak.
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But in this tournament can no man tilt. --Tennyson.
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The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the ?urges flew.
--Pope.
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2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
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The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward
by the muscles of the back. --Grew.
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tilt
n 1: a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each
other with blunted lances [syn: joust]
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, 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: list, inclination,
lean, leaning]
5: pitching dangerously to one side [syn: rock, careen, sway]
v 1: to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned
over the banister" [syn: lean, tip, slant, angle]
2: heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
[syn: cant, cant over, slant, pitch]
3: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out
of control" [syn: careen, wobble, shift]
4: charge with a tilt
WordNet (r) 2.0
201 Moby Thesaurus words for "tilt":
Olympic games, Olympics, a outrance, altercation, angle,
angularity, argument, ascend, attack, bandy with, bank, battle,
battle it out, bout, bowl, box, brawl, broil, bump heads, cant,
capsize, careen, cast, catapult, charge, chuck, chunk, clash,
climb, close, collide, combat, come a cropper, come to blows,
compete with, concours, contend, contend with, contest, cope with,
cross swords with, cut and thrust, dart, dash, dash at, decline,
derby, descend, difference, dip, dispute, drop, duel, encounter,
engage with, engagement, exchange blows, exchange shots, fall,
fall away, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall off,
fall over, fall prostrate, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel,
fight like devils, fight with, fire, fling, flip, flounder, fly at,
fork, game, games, get a cropper, give and take, give satisfaction,
go, go downhill, go to loggerheads, go uphill, grade, gradient,
grapple, grapple with, gymkhana, have it out, heave, heel, hurl,
hurtle, inclination, incline, jerk, jostle, joust, jump off, keel,
lance, launch, lean, leaning, leaning tower, let fly, list, lob,
lock horns, lurch, match, matching, measure swords with, meet,
meeting, mix it up, pass, peg, pelt, pitch, pitchfork, put,
put the shot, quarrel, rake, rally, rassle, recline, rencontre,
retreat, riot, rise, run a tilt, run at, rush, rush at, scramble,
scuffle, serve, set-to, settle it, shelve, shy, sidle, skirmish,
slant, sling, slope, snap, spar, spat, sprawl, spread-eagle,
squabble, stagger, strive, strive with, struggle, struggle with,
stumble, swag, sway, take a fall, take a flop, take a header,
take a pratfall, take a spill, tangle with, test, throw,
thrust and parry, tiff, tilt at, tilt with, tilter, tilting, tip,
topple, topple down, topple over, toss, totter, tournament,
tourney, tower of Pisa, trial, trip, try conclusions with, tumble,
turn turtle, tussle, uprise, wage war, war, wrestle, wrestle with,
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