tilting lance (tilt in glans)

A lance used in the just or tilt which often differed from the war lance, especially in the head (see coronal, n., 2). It was also furnished more generally than the war-lance with the roundel, and with the bur to secure the grasp of the hand, and was frequently decorated with painting and gilding. Some tilting-lances have been preserved which from their extreme lightne are evidently hollow, and representations in manuscripts show some of so great a diameter that they must have been built up as with staves; but these perhaps were used only for the quintain and similar sports. Compare rest1, n., 6 ( a ), couch1, v. t., 8, charge, 19. See cuts under morne and quintain. tilting-shield (til'ting-sheld), n. See shield.