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6 definitions found 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["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. 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["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. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tilt n 1: a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances [syn: {joust}] 2: a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument" [syn: {controversy}, {contention}, {contestation}, {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 [syn: {cant}, {cant over}, {slant}, {pitch}] 3: move sideways or in an unsteady way as of a ship or a vehicle out of control [syn: {careen}, {sway}, {wobble}, {shift}] 4: charge with a tilt, as in a a joust
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