tilting target (tilting tar"get)

The shield of the fifteenth century, used especially at justs, rounded convexly from side to side and con cavely from top to bot tom, so that the thrust of the lance would glance off. 3. A forger who uses a tilt-hammer.-4. In fishing , same as tilt1 , 6. tilth (tilth), ing, crop, tilian , till: see till1 .] 1. The act sidewise. These targets were of tilling: plowing, sowing, and the round of often of great breadth prop or- agricultural operations; tillage; cultivation. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 615. ground. Bote Treuthe schal techen ow his tee me for to dryue, Bothe to sowen and to setten and sauen his tilthe . Piers Plowman (A), vii. 128. IMG:content-0431.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0432.png:[blocks in formation] Squiring to tilt - yards , play-houses, pageants, and all such public places. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, Palinode. tilwood (til'wud), n. [ til- (as in til - tree ) + wood1.] The timber of the Canary Island tiltree. See til -tree. tilyet, tilyert. Middle English forms of till, tiller1.