'Tilt' definitions:

Definition of 'tilt'

(from WordNet)
noun
A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances [syn: joust, tilt]
noun
A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument" [syn: controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing]
noun
A slight but noticeable partiality; "the court's tilt toward conservative rulings"
noun
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: tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning]
noun
Pitching dangerously to one side [syn: rock, careen, sway, tilt]
verb
To incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister" [syn: lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle]
verb
Heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting" [syn: cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch]
verb
Move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" [syn: careen, wobble, shift, tilt]
verb
Charge with a tilt

Definition of 'Tilt'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • He tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • But in this tournament can no man tilt. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the ?urges flew. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. [1913 Webster]
  • The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. --Grew. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tilt'

From: GCIDE
  • Tilt \Tilt\ (t[i^]lt), n. [OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS. teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw. t[aum]lt, tj[aum]ll, Dan. telt, and AS. beteldan to cover.]
  • 1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Naut.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. [1913 Webster]
  • Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth.
  • Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tilt'

From: GCIDE
  • Tilt \Tilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting.] To cover with a tilt, or awning. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tilt'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To point or thrust, as a lance. [1913 Webster]
  • Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. --J. Philips. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To point or thrust a weapon at. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tilt'

From: GCIDE
  • Tilt \Tilt\, n.
  • 1. A thrust, as with a lance. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. [1913 Webster]
  • Full tilt, with full force. --Dampier. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'tilt'

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