Tilt
TILT, noun
1. A tent; a covering over head.
2. The cloth covering of a cart or wagon.
3. The cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning of canvas or other cloth, extended over the stern sheets of a boat.
TILT, verb transitive To cover with a cloth or awning.
TILT, noun [See the verb.] A thrust; as a tilt with a lance.
1. Formerly, a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; as tilts and tournaments.
2. A large hammer; a tilt-hammer; used in iron manufactures.
3. Inclination forward; as the tilt of a cask; or a cask is a-tilt.
TILT, verb transitive [Latin tollo.]
1. To incline; to raise one end, as a cask, for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
2. To point or thrust, as a lance.
Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.
3. To hammer or forge with a tilt-hammer or tilt; as, to tilt steel to render it more ductile.
4. To cover with a tilt
TILT, verb intransitive To run or ride and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting at each other on horseback.
1. To fight with rapiers.
Swords out and tilting one at other's breast.
3. To play unsteadily; to ride, float and toss.
The fleet swift tilting o'er the surges flew.
4. To lean; to fall, as on one side.
The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.
TILT'-BOAT, noun A boat covered with canvas or other cloth.