5 entries under this word
n. [A-S. teld, geteld, geteald, O. D. telde, Icel. tiald, Sw. tält, tjäll, Dan. & L. Ger. telt, H. Ger. zelt, from A-S. teldan, to cover, shut in.]
v. t. [imp. & p. p. TILTED; p. pr. & vb. n. TILTING.] To cover with a tilt, or awning. Phillips.
v. t. [A.-S. tealtrian, tealtian, to waver, tealt, inconstant, Icel. tölt, a trotting, tölta, to trot, D. tel, H. Ger. zelt, amble, ambling pace, O. Fries. tilla, D. & L. Ger. tillen, to lift, Dan. talde, tylle, to fill up again, to cask, tyldeaf, to pour out, to decant.]
Sense 1. To incline; to raise one end of, as a cask, for discharging liquor from; as, to tilt a barrel.
Sense 2. To point or thrust, as a lance.
Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. Philips.
Sense 3. To hammer or forge with a tilt-hammer, or tilt; as, to tilt steel to render it more ductile.
Sense 1. To run, or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance at a combatant on horseback.
He tilts with piercing steel. Shak.
I shall tilt to-morrow in the melee. W. Scott.
Sense 2. To fight with rapiers.
Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast. Shak.
Sense 3. To rush, as in combat.
Sense 4. To play unsteadily; to ride, float, and toss.
The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the surges flew. Pope.
Sense 5. To lean; to fall, as on one side.
The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. Grew.
n. [See the verb.] 1. A thrust, as with a lance.