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▪ I. tilter, n.1|ˈtɪltə(r)|
[f. tilt v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who tilts or justs; a combatant in a tilt; also fig.
1611Florio, Fólla..a course in the field where many horsemen or tilters, after they haue runne single one to one, they runne pell mell altogether. 1612Webster White Devil iii. i, None are judges at tilting, but those that have bene old tilters. 1749Smollett Gil Blas v. i. (1782) II. 148, I was shocked at the inequality of the combat, and, as I am naturally a tilter, flew to the assistance of the old man. 1827Scott Tales Grandf. Ser. i. xxiii. (1828) II. 216 The best tilter with the spear received from the King a lance with a head of pure gold. 1898J. Hollingshead Gaiety Chron. i. 37, I was always a tilter at windmills.
†b. A rapier or sword. slang. Obs.
1688Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia ii. Wks. 1720 IV. 47 Let me see your Porker; here's a Porker! here's a Tilter! 1691Islington-Wells 7 A young spruce City Fop,..With a Long-Wig and Tilter on. 1713Steele Guard. No. 143 ⁋5 To..reduce their tilters to a more reputable, as well as a more portable size.
2. One who or that which tilts, inclines, or slopes (something) up or down; spec. (a) an apparatus for tilting a cask so as to empty it without stirring up the dregs; (b) a workman who tilts or empties out the coal into trucks at the pit's mouth.
1630Maldon, Essex, Documents Bundle 217 No. 22 In the butterye, i beer stalle and i tilter, 8d. 1892J. Lumsden Sheeph. & Trotters 213 The neatest tilter and emptier of a brandy and water glass I ever saw. 1896Daily News 1 May 2/1 The only persons in the vicinity of the pit mouth were the banksmen, blacksmiths, and tilters.
3. One who works with a tilt-hammer.
1829E. Elliott Vill. Patriarch i. i, Loud thumps the forge; bright burns the cottage fire, From which the tilter's lad is loth to go. 1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 242 During the operation of hammering,..the tilter sits on a seat reaching nearly to the ground.
▪ II. ˈtilter, n.2 dial.
[prob. rustic pronunciation of tilture: cf. pictur, picter for picture.]
Proper condition; order: perh. orig. of cultivated land, and afterwards of things generally.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 75 The single shove or heave of the spring..puts the Watch thus fadg'd together and in tilter into motions round, right on,..forwards, backwards, upwards, downwards, and otherwayes. a1880Kentish Dial., This thurruck is out o' tilter all the way along. 1887Kent Gloss. s.v., He's left that farm purty much out o' tilter, I can tell ye.
▪ III. ˈtilter, v. dial.
[app. freq. of tilt v.1, sense 3; cf. OE. tealtrian to be unsteady, shake, totter, extended form of tealtian (tilt v.1): see -er5.
Cf.a800Cynewulf Christ 371 Hu we tealtriᵹað tydran mode. a1000Haupt's Glosses 529 Tealtrian, vacillare, titubare.]
intr. To sway up and down.
1845S. Judd Margaret i. xiv, A bobolink clung tiltering to the breezy tip of a white birch. 1895K. D. Wiggin Vill. Watch-Tower 36 Butterflies..perch on the..stalks and tilter up and down in the sunshine. |