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A covering overhead; especially, a tent. |
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The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. |
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A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended
over the sternsheets of a boat. |
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To cover with a tilt, or awning. |
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To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging
liquor; as, to tilt a barrel. |
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To point or thrust, as a lance. |
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To point or thrust a weapon at. |
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To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel
in order to render it more ductile. |
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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. |
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To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. |
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A thrust, as with a lance. |
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A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants
attacked each other with lances; a tournament. |
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See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary. |
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Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. |