| Tilt (tilt) |
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| n. | (t***ibreve]lt) |
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| Tilt |
| [OE. telt
(perhaps from the Danish |
A covering overhead;
especially, a tent.
The cloth covering of a cart or a
wagon.
A cloth cover of a boat; a small
canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
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To
cover with a tilt, or awning.
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To
incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to
tilt a barrel.
To point or thrust, as a lance.
To point or thrust a weapon at.
To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer] as, to
tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
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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.
To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
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A
thrust, as with a lance.
A military exercise on horseback, in which the
combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
See Tilt hammer, in the
Vocabulary.
Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a
cask.
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