Tilt
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.
To cover with a tilt, or awning.
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.
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.
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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Tilt Quotations
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
Travis Barker
Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.
Brit Hume
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
Ted Rall
Tilt Translations
tilt in Dutch is neigen, buigen, doen overhellen
tilt in Finnish is kallistaa
tilt in French is basculer, rendement maximum, pencher
tilt in Italian is ribaltabile, piegare
tilt in Swedish is luta, vippa
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