Definition of tilt

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Tilt (n.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.

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Tilt :: Tilt (v. t.) To point or thrust a weapon at.
Subtilty :: Subtilty (n.) The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light..
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament..
Stilt :: Stilting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stil.
Keeve :: Keeve (v. t.) To heave; to tilt, as a cart..
Dump :: Dump (v. t.) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc..
Tilt :: Tilt (v. i.) 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..
Tilt-yard :: Tilt-yard (n.) A yard or place for tilting.
Patten :: Patten (n.) A stilt.
Tilting :: Tilting (n.) The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
Cockbill :: Cockbill (v. t.) To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning..
Finesse :: Finesse (a.) Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.
Cant :: Cant (v. t.) To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship..
Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To hit or touch lightly, in tilting..
Tilt-mill :: Tilt-mill (n.) A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on..
Joust :: Joust (v. i.) A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary..
Trip Hammer :: Trip hammer () A tilt hammer.
Quintain :: Quintain (n.) An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel.
Stilt :: Stilt (n.) A crutch; also, the handle of a plow..
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