Tilt

tilt, v. t. To raise one end (as of a cask) for charging liquid from; to tip; to point or thrust, lance; to hammer or forge with a tilt-hammer, or — v. i. To run, or ride, and thrust with a lance fight with rapiers; to rush, as in combat; to play steadily to; ride, float, and to ; to lean; to fall, on one side. — n. A thrust, as with a lance; a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament tilt-hammer; inclination forward. — Tilt'er, n. Onewhoprac- >>\ tices the ex- N ercise of pushing a lance on horseback; one who hammers with a tilt, or tilt hammer.— Tilt'-ham'm e r, n. A heavy hammer, used in Tilt-Hammer. iron-w o r k s, which is lifted or tilted by projecsun, cube, full; moon, fdot; cow, tions, cams, or wipers on the axis of a wheel; a triphammer. Tilth. See under Till, to plow.