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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Burr :: Burr (n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping..
Strike :: Strike (n.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip..
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask..
Stilt :: Stilt (n.) A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm..
Stime :: Stilty (a.) Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style..
Overtilt :: Overtilt (v. t.) To tilt over; to overturn.
Atilt :: Atilt (adv.) In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust..
Tilt :: Tilt (v. i.) To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
Hogback :: Hogback (n.) A ridge formed by tilted strata; hence, any ridge with a sharp summit, and steeply sloping sides..
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..
Quiddit :: Quiddit (n.) A subtilty; an equivocation.
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 (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary..
Joust :: "Joust (v. i.) To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt..
Tilt Hammer :: Tilt hammer () A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer..
Trolly :: Trolly (n.) A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like..
Tilth :: Tilth (n.) That which is tilled; tillage ground.
Lawyer :: Lawyer (n.) The black-necked stilt. See Stilt.
Tilting :: Tilting (n.) The act of one who tilts; a tilt.
Finesse :: Finesse (a.) Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.
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