Tilt — Defs

01 n. A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

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.(Naut.)

Phrases & compounds

Tilt boat — a boat covered with canvas or other cloth.

Tilt roof — a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon.

02 v. t. To cover with a tilt, or awning.

imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting

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

1.
To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
2.
To point or thrust, as a lance.
“Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.” — J. Philips.
3.
To point or thrust a weapon at.[Obs.]
4.
To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

04 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; …

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.
“He tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast.” — Shak.

“Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast.” — Shak.

“But in this tournament can no man tilt.” — Tennyson.

“The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the �urges flew.” — Pope.
2.
To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
“The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.” — Grew.

05 n. A thrust, as with a lance.

1.
A thrust, as with a lance.
2.
A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
3.
See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary. See: Tilt hammer
4.
Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

Phrases & compounds

Full tilt — with full force.