tilt

1. n. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. Source: opted

2. n. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. Source: opted

3. n. A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. Source: opted

4. v. t. To cover with a tilt, or awning. Source: opted

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

6. v. t. To point or thrust, as a lance. Source: opted

7. v. t. To point or thrust a weapon at. Source: opted

8. v. t. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

10. v. i. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. Source: opted

11. n. A thrust, as with a lance. Source: opted

12. n. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament. Source: opted

13. n. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary. Source: opted

14. n. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. Source: opted

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