[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tilt \tilt\ ti^lt, n. oe. telt perhaps from the danish,
   teld, as. teld, geteld; akin to od. telde, g. zelt, icel.
   tjald, sw. taumlt, tjaumll, dan. telt, and as. beteldan
   to cover.
   1. a covering overhead; especially, a tent. --denham.
      1913 webster

   2. the cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
      1913 webster

   3. naut. a cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning
      extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
      1913 webster

   tilt boat naut., a boat covered with canvas or other
      cloth.

   tilt roof arch., a round-headed roof, like the canopy of
      a wagon.
      1913 webster
see also:
tilt boat tilt roof 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tilt \tilt\, v. t. imp.  p. p. tilted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   tilting.
   to cover with a tilt, or awning.
   1913 webster
see also:
tilted tilting 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tilt \tilt\, v. t. oe. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, as.
   tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to
   vacillate, d. tel amble, ambling pace, g. zelt, icel. t"olt
   an ambling pace, t"olta to amble. cf. totter.
   1. to incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging
      liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
      1913 webster

   2. to point or thrust, as a lance.
      1913 webster

            sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. --j.
                                                  philips.
      1913 webster

   3. to point or thrust a weapon at. obs. --beau.  fl.
      1913 webster

   4. to hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel
      in order to render it more ductile.
      1913 webster
see also:
totter 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tilt \tilt\, n.
   1. a thrust, as with a lance. --addison.
      1913 webster

   2. a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants
      attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
      1913 webster

   3. see tilt hammer, in the vocabulary.
      1913 webster

   4. inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
      1913 webster

   full tilt, with full force. --dampier.
      1913 webster
see also:
tilt hammer full tilt 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tilt \tilt\, v. i.
   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.
      1913 webster

            he tilts
            with piercing steel at bold mercutio's breast.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

            swords out, and tilting one at other's breast.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

            but in this tournament can no man tilt. --tennyson.
      1913 webster

            the fleet, swift tilting, o'er the ?urges flew.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   2. to lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
      1913 webster

            the trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward
            by the muscles of the back.           --grew.
      1913 webster

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

tilt
     n 1: a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each
          other with blunted lances syn: joust
     2: a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong
        disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"
        syn: controversy, contention, contestation, disputation,
         disceptation, argument, arguing
     3: a slight but noticeable partiality; "the court's tilt toward
        conservative rulings"
     4: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs
        from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the
        ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a
        heavy inclination to the right" syn: list, inclination,
         lean, leaning
     5: pitching dangerously to one side syn: rock, careen, sway
     v 1: to incline or bend from a vertical position; "she leaned
          over the banister" syn: lean, tip, slant, angle
     2: heel over; "the tower is tilting"; "the ceiling is slanting"
        syn: cant, cant over, slant, pitch
     3: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "the ship careened out
        of control" syn: careen, wobble, shift
     4: charge with a tilt
see also:
joust controversy contention contestation disputation disceptation 
argument arguing list inclination lean 
leaning rock careen sway tip 
slant angle cant cant over pitch 
wobble shift 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

201 moby thesaurus words for "tilt":
   olympic games, olympics, a outrance, altercation, angle,
   angularity, argument, ascend, attack, bandy with, bank, battle,
   battle it out, bout, bowl, box, brawl, broil, bump heads, cant,
   capsize, careen, cast, catapult, charge, chuck, chunk, clash,
   climb, close, collide, combat, come a cropper, come to blows,
   compete with, concours, contend, contend with, contest, cope with,
   cross swords with, cut and thrust, dart, dash, dash at, decline,
   derby, descend, difference, dip, dispute, drop, duel, encounter,
   engage with, engagement, exchange blows, exchange shots, fall,
   fall away, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall off,
   fall over, fall prostrate, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel,
   fight like devils, fight with, fire, fling, flip, flounder, fly at,
   fork, game, games, get a cropper, give and take, give satisfaction,
   go, go downhill, go to loggerheads, go uphill, grade, gradient,
   grapple, grapple with, gymkhana, have it out, heave, heel, hurl,
   hurtle, inclination, incline, jerk, jostle, joust, jump off, keel,
   lance, launch, lean, leaning, leaning tower, let fly, list, lob,
   lock horns, lurch, match, matching, measure swords with, meet,
   meeting, mix it up, pass, peg, pelt, pitch, pitchfork, put,
   put the shot, quarrel, rake, rally, rassle, recline, rencontre,
   retreat, riot, rise, run a tilt, run at, rush, rush at, scramble,
   scuffle, serve, set-to, settle it, shelve, shy, sidle, skirmish,
   slant, sling, slope, snap, spar, spat, sprawl, spread-eagle,
   squabble, stagger, strive, strive with, struggle, struggle with,
   stumble, swag, sway, take a fall, take a flop, take a header,
   take a pratfall, take a spill, tangle with, test, throw,
   thrust and parry, tiff, tilt at, tilt with, tilter, tilting, tip,
   topple, topple down, topple over, toss, totter, tournament,
   tourney, tower of pisa, trial, trip, try conclusions with, tumble,
   turn turtle, tussle, uprise, wage war, war, wrestle, wrestle with,
   yaw

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