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Tilt (tĭlt), n. [OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS. teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw. t&ä;lt, tj&ä;ll, Dan. telt, and AS. beteldan to cover.] 1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. Denham.
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2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
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3. (Naut.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
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Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth. -- Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon.
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Tilt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting.] To cover with a tilt, or awning.
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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&ö;lt an ambling pace, t&ö;lta to amble. Cf. Totter.] 1. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
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2. To point or thrust, as a lance.
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Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. J. Philips.
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3. To point or thrust a weapon at. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
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4. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
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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.
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He tilts
With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast. Shak.
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Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast. Shak.
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But in this tournament can no man tilt. Tennyson.
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The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the &unr_;urges flew. Pope.
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2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
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The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. Grew.
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Tilt (?), n. 1. A thrust, as with a lance. Addison.
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2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
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3. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
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4. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
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Full tilt, with full force. Dampier.
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