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Meaning Of Tilt
n.
A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
n.
The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
n.
A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended
over the sternsheets of a boat.
v. t.
To cover with a tilt, or awning.
v. t.
To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging
liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
v. t.
To point or thrust, as a lance.
v. t.
To point or thrust a weapon at.
v. t.
To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel
in order to render it more ductile.
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; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or
movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.
v. i.
To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
n.
A thrust, as with a lance.
n.
A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants
attacked each other with lances; a tournament.