Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tilt"
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) 1.7 (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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