| Tilt |
A covering overhead; especially, a tent. |
n. |
| Tilt |
The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. |
n. |
| Tilt |
A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. |
n. |
| Tilt |
To cover with a tilt, or awning. |
v. t. |
| Tilt |
To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel. |
v. t. |
| Tilt |
To point or thrust, as a lance. |
v. t. |
| Tilt |
To point or thrust a weapon at. |
v. t. |
| Tilt |
To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile. |
v. t. |
| Tilt |
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. |
v. i. |
| Tilt |
To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. |
v. i. |
| Tilt |
A thrust, as with a lance. |
n. |
| Tilt |
A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament. |
n. |
| Tilt |
See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary. |
n. |
| Tilt |
Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. |
n. |
| Tilt hammer |
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. |
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| Tilt-mill |
A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on. |
n. |
| Tilt-up |
Same as Tip-up. |
n. |
| Yard |
A rod; a stick; a staff. |
v. i. |
| Yard |
A branch; a twig. |
v. i. |
| Yard |
A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc. |
v. i. |