tilt2 (tilt)

[An altered form of ME. telt, itself altered, prob. by the influence of the Dan. telt = Sw. tält, from teld, OF. taudir, for teld. cover.'] A cover, taudis, a hut). The noun tilt, for teld, may have been influenced in part by by a ociation with tiltl, as if lit. 'a sloping cover.'] covering of some thin and flexible stuff, as a tent-awning; especially, in modern use, the cloth cover of a wagon. Being on shore, wee made a tilt with our oares and sayle. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. ii. 34. These pleasure barges were more or le ornate, and varied from the ordinary boat with a tilt of canvas or green boughs to very elaborately carved and gilded ones. J. Ashton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 148. tilt2 (tilt), v. t. [ er machine-tool for hammering, forging, etc. It is a development from the trip-hammer, and, though for large work it has been superseded by the steam-hammer, and for light work by drop-pre es and drop-hammers, it is still used in shovel-making and other light forging. It IMG:content-0430.png:[blocks in formation] tilting-fillet (til'ting-filet), n. See fillet . tilting-gauntlet (tilting-gant let), n. A var i- ety of gauntlet which could be secured firmly with a hook, so that the hand could not be Compare main - de - fer . tilting-helmet (til'ting-helmet), n. A heavy Tilting-helmet, 16th century. this sport was no longer pursued in the arms of war. In the fifteenth century these helmets were so large that the head could move freely within them, their whole weight coming upon the gorgerin. The lum ière, or slit for vision, was in such a position that when the knight had couched his lance and stooped forward for the course he could see the helmet of his adversary, but when seated in the saddle he could not see before him, but only upward; the air-opening of this helmet was on the right side, as the tilt3 (tilt), n. [Prob. short for tilt - up , 2.] The North American stilt, Him an top us mexican us . blow of the lance came on the left. In the sixteenth cen- See cut under stilt. J. E. De Kay, 1842. tilt-boat (tilt'bōt), n. A boat having a tilt or awning. Where the Ships, Hoys, Barks, Tilt boats , Barges, and Wherries do usually attend to carry Pa engers and Goods. John Taylor (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 223). Your wife is a tilt - boat ; any man or woman may go in her for money; she's a coney catcher. Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, v. 1.