Tilt

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A thrust, as with a lance.

II. Tilt ·vt To point or thrust a weapon at.

III. Tilt ·vt To point or thrust, as a lance.

IV. Tilt ·vt To cover with a tilt, or awning.

V. Tilt ·noun ·see Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.

VI. Tilt ·noun A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

VII. Tilt ·noun The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

VIII. Tilt ·noun Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

IX. Tilt ·vi To Lean; to fall partly over; to Tip.

X. Tilt ·noun A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.

XI. Tilt ·vt To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

XII. Tilt ·noun A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.

XIII. Tilt ·vt To Incline; to Tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

XIV. Tilt ·vi 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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