tilt

v. t. [ OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. tölt an ambling pace, tölta to amble. Cf. Totter. ] 1. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To point or thrust, as a lance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To point or thrust a weapon at. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting. ] To cover with a tilt, or awning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

He tilts
With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

But in this tournament can no man tilt. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the &unr_;urges flew. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. [ 1913 Webster ]

The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A thrust, as with a lance. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full tilt, with full force. Dampier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me alone to match your tilter. Glanville. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who operates a tilt hammer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. til&unr_;, fr. tilian to till. See Till to cultivate. ] 1. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And so by tilth and grange . . .
We gained the mother city. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who tilts; a tilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tilting helmet, a helmet of large size and unusual weight and strength, worn at tilts. [ 1913 Webster ]