v. i.
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 ]
The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Full tilt,
v. t.
n. [ OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS. teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw. tält, tjäll, Dan. telt, and AS. beteldan to cover. ]
Tilt boat (Naut.),
Tilt roof (Arch.),
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. ]
Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Let me alone to match your tilter. Glanville. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. til&unr_;, fr. tilian to till. See Till to cultivate. ]
The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. De Quincey. [ 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.
Tilting helmet,
n. A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on. [ 1913 Webster ]