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Tilt
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
(2):
(v. t.) To point or thrust, as a lance.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(v. t.) To point or thrust a weapon at.
(5):
(v. t.) To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
(6):
(v. i.) To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
(7):
(n.) The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
(8):
(n.) A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
(9):
(n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
(10):
(v. t.) To cover with a tilt, or awning.
(11):
(n.) Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
(12):
(n.) A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
(13):
(n.) A thrust, as with a lance.
(14):
(n.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tilt'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/tilt.html. 1828.
