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Tilt [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A tent; a covering over head.

2. The cloth covering of a cart or wagon.

3. The cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning of canvas or other cloth, extended over the stern sheets of a boat.

4. A thrust; as a tilt with a lance.

5. Formerly, a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; as tilts and tournaments.

6. A large hammer; a tilt-hammer; used in iron manufactures.

7. Inclination forward; as the tilt of a cask; or a cask is a-tilt.

8. A boat covered with canvas or other cloth.

Tilt [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To run or ride and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting at each other on horseback.

2. To fight with rapiers.

3. Swords out and tilting one at other's breast.

4. To rush, as in combat.

5. To play unsteadily; to ride, float and toss.

6. The fleet swift tilting o'er the surges flew.

7. To lean; to fall, as on one side.

8. The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.

Tilt [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cover with a cloth or awning.

2. To incline; to raise one end, as a cask, for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

3. To point or thrust, as a lance.

4. Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.

5. To hammer or forge with a tilt-hammer or tilt; as, to tilt steel to render it more ductile.

6. To cover with a tilt

Tilt [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

3. A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.

4. A thrust, as with a lance.

5. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.

6. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.

7. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

Tilt [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.

Tilt [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cover with a tilt, or awning.

2. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

3. To point or thrust, as a lance.

4. To point or thrust a weapon at.

5. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

Tilt hammer Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Tilt-hammer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A heavy hammer used in iron works, which is lifted by a wheel.

Tilt-mill [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.

Tilt-up [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Tip-up.

Tilt-yard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A yard or place for tilting.

Tilted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Inclined; made to stoop; covered with cloth or awning.

2. Hammered; prepared by beating; as steel.

Tilted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tilter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who tilts; one who uses the exercise of pushing a lance on horseback; one who fights.

2. Let me alone to match your tilter

3. One who hammers with a tilt.

Tilter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.

2. One who operates a tilt hammer.

Tilth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That which is tilled; tillage ground. [Not in use.]

2. The state of being tilled or prepared for a crop. We say, land is in good tilth when it is manured, plowed, broken and mellowed for receiving the seed. We say also, ground is in bad tilth When we say, land is in tilth we mean in good condition for the seed; not in tilth in a bad condition.

Tilth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth.

2. That which is tilled; tillage ground.

Tilting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Inclining; causing to stoop or lean; using the game of thrusting with the lance on horseback; also, hammering with a tilt-hammer.

Tilting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of one who tilts; a tilt.

2. The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.

Tilting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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