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English Dictionary: tilt by the DICT Development Group
6 results for tilt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tilt
n
  1. a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
    Synonym(s): joust, tilt
  2. a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning
  5. pitching dangerously to one side
    Synonym(s): rock, careen, sway, tilt
v
  1. to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"
    Synonym(s): lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle
  2. heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
    Synonym(s): cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch
  3. move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"
    Synonym(s): careen, wobble, shift, tilt
  4. charge with a tilt
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tilt \Tilt\, n. [OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS.
      teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw.
      t[84]lt, tj[84]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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tilt \Tilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tilted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Tilting}.]
      To cover with a tilt, or awning.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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[94]lt
      an ambling pace, t[94]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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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