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Tilt \Tilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tilted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tilting}.]
To cover with a tilt, or awning.
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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.
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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 \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.
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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 \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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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.
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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 ?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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