Thesaurus: tilt

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1. n. A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
2. n. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
3. n. A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
4. v. t. To cover with a tilt, or awning.
5. v. t. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
6. v. t. To point or thrust, as a lance.
7. v. t. To point or thrust a weapon at.
8. v. t. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
9. 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.
10. v. i. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
11. n. A thrust, as with a lance.
12. n. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
13. n. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
14. n. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.