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/tˈɪltəd/ /tˈɪltɪd/ Listen

verb

Tilt v. t. (past & past part. tilted; pres. part. tilting) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

Tilt v. t.

To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

To point or thrust, as a lance. "Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance."

To point or thrust a weapon at. (Obs.)

To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

Tilt 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. "He tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast." "Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast." "But in this tournament can no man tilt."

To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. "The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back."

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Etymology of 'Tilted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tilted" Quotes from Famous Books

... well aware of all this,—indeed had he not thrown down his gauntlet every night to the Incandescent Gerald precisely because he knew how well he himself looked in the lists, and how well he tilted? But perhaps Lord Henry was even better aware than Denis of the important part played by intellectual male conflict in the presence of women; and he moreover realised more certainly than Denis could possibly have guessed, the precise ...

— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici

... Jan as he tilted the nose of the June Bug and began to climb at an all but perpendicular angle straight into the heavens. Mile after mile, in less than as many minutes, they hurtled towards the zenith, so that the ...

— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint

... then hard upon fifty, and he had kept, as he did to the end, the slender figure of his youth, but the ashes of the burnt-out years were beginning to gray the fires of that splendid shock of red hair which he held to the height of a stature apparently greater than it was, and tilted from side to side in his undulating walk. He glimmered at you from the narrow slits of fine blue-greenish eyes, under branching brows, which with age grew more and more like a sort of plumage, and he was apt to ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... deeply sunken, bright blue eyes looked with paternal affection at the little figure at his side. The lips under the tip-tilted nose formed, faintly, a pout. It was unusual for Tommy to sit so long beside "Pop" without asking a thousand questions. One of the reasons Tommy liked Professor Brierly so much was that the latter always answered his questions. And the answers ...

— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew

... each corner of the base, provide support for the kettle. The kettle's feet, in the form of fish, rest on the rocks and are fastened to them with hinges held by a chain and silver pin. The pins can be released so that the kettle can be tilted for pouring without moving it from the base. By withdrawing all four pins, the kettle can be completely detached from the base. The body of the kettle is decorated with nautical designs—waves, fish, shells, etc.—and cattails and lily pads. ...

— Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology • Margaret Brown Klapthor

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