tiltn.1
/tɪlt/, U.S. /tɪlt/ 1. A covering of coarse cloth, in early quots. of hair-cloth; an awning; a booth, tent, or tabernacle.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > against weather or storms > roof-like covering of cloth
tiltc1440
penthouse1517
entiltment1599
shamiana1609
tilt-cloth1611
awning1624
tentorium1661
tilting1720
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 488/1 Telte, or tente, tentorium.
1547 in Acts Privy Council (1890) II. 133 Tyltes of heare to couver the powder.
1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 110 On shoare wee made a Tilt with our Oares and saile.
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 13) 253 The Apostle compares his life to a Tabernacle; a little shed or tilt [printed tilth], wherein the immortall soule dwels.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iv. xii. 504/1 The coffin had ouer it a tilt or stately frame of wood couered with black.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 135 Machines..fitted with tilts, that project from the sea-ward ends of them,..to screen the bathers from the view.
2. spec. An awning over a boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > devices to protect ship from weather > awning
teld1307
tilt1611
tilt-cloth1611
awning1624
canopy1867
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. I A boate with a tilt ouer it.
1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 11 The rowing Crew To tempt a Fare, cloath all their Tilts in Blue.
1887 W. Besant World went very well Then I. ii. 53 A broad canvas tilt or awning rigged up from stem to stern.
3. An awning or cover for a cart, wagon, or motor vehicle, usually of canvas or tarpaulin.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > cover or tilt
overlay1456
tillet1497
tilt1620
overlayer1811
sail1850
wagon-sail1850
coverture1856
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > canopy
tilt1976
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1746) III. xi. 69 The Waggon's Self was opened, without Tilt or Boughs.
a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 228 They covered the Cart with a base dirty tilt made of skins.
1753 Scots Mag. Nov. 541/1 The tilt or some other conspicuous place of his waggon.
1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches ii. 141 Each wagon is provided with a raised canvas tilt to protect the traveller from sun and rain.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 24 My waggon..on the hinder part of which stood a tilt or tent where I slept.
1976 Milton Keynes Express 16 July 31/3 (advt.) 1975 Mini Pick-up, green, one owner, fitted tilt.
1977 ‘D. Rutherford’ Return Load iv. 77 One of his employees was fastening the blue canvas cover to the hooks on the side of one of the big, steel-framed tilts that were in such great demand for Continental journeys.
4. In Labrador and Newfoundland: A fisherman's or wood-cutter's hut; also, a lean-to shelter.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > herdsman's, shepherd's, etc.
shiel1291
tilt1612
shepherd's hut1663
chalet1784
shanty1824
stock-hut1827
kiln-hole1828
hok1930
1612 in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 567/2 They had made a tilte with a sayle, that they got from some Christian.
1819 L. A. Anspach Hist. Island Newfoundland 468 They call tilts temporary log houses, which they erect in the woods to pursue there their winter occupations.
1895 R. G. Taber in Outing 27 20/1 A score of shoresmen's ‘tilts’—rude turf-covered huts, some little cleaner than the Esquimaux' habitations.
1906 Toilers of Deep June 150/2 (Labrador) A few wooden ‘tilts’ nestled at the edge of the river... The ‘tilts’ are all very much alike—the general ‘living-room’,..and the beds in curtained-off recesses. The little colony..come from their homes at Cape Charles only for the winter's trapping and wood-cutting.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
tilt-maker n.
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1847 C. G. Addison Treat. Law Contracts (1883) ii. vii. §2 921 The defendant ordered the plaintiff to make him a waggon, and..employed..a tiltmaker to put on a tilt.
tilt-weaver n.
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1579 Transcr. Faversham Parish Reg. (MS.) Erosamas Smalwodd, a tylte~weuer.
tilt-window n.
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1799 Hull Advertiser 3 Aug. 4/1 She..thrust it out at one of the tilt-windows.
b.
tilt-like adj.
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1835 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. xiii. 283 The grey ruins, and the mossy, tilt-like hillocks.
C2. † tilt-hair n. Obsolete ? hair-cloth for tilts. † tilt-sail n. Obsolete ? a sail made of coarse cloth.
tilt-bonnet n. a woman's or girl's bonnet in the form of a wagon-tilt, made by bending a piece of pasteboard into a half-cylinder, and covering it with linen or calico, a drawing-string holding it in shape, the material being extended to cover the crown and form a curtain (T. Hardy): cf. coal-scuttle bonnet n. at coal scuttle n. Compounds.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > woman's bonnet > types of > other
dulcimer?1767
cottage bonnet1794
cabriolet1797
skyscraper1800
kettle-holder1813
basket-bonnet1824
kiss-me-quick1845
tilt-bonnet1874
granny bonnet1879
toque1881
rain bonnet1909
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxv. 282 The women..wore tilt bonnets covered with nankeen.
tilt-cloth n. = senses 1 – 3.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > devices to protect ship from weather > awning
teld1307
tilt1611
tilt-cloth1611
awning1624
canopy1867
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > against weather or storms > roof-like covering of cloth
tiltc1440
penthouse1517
entiltment1599
shamiana1609
tilt-cloth1611
awning1624
tentorium1661
tilting1720
1611 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. iv. 432 For a tylt cloth, 2s. 6d.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Witney Tilt-cloths for bargemen, are likewise made here.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from hair > [noun]
hairec825
tilt-hairc1440
hairc1485
haircloth1500
hair-patch?1611
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 488/1 Telte hayyr (H., A., P. telt, hayre), gauda.
1562 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) III. 576/1 Tilt hair. 35½ bolts @ 1/4, 94 pieces @ 11/-.
tilt-roof n. ‘a round-topped roof, shaped like a tilt or wagon-cover’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1877).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > other sails
fuk1465
tilt-sail1620
wing-sail1794
umbrella sail1900
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1746) IV. xxii. 178 The General made all the Gallies strike their Tilt-sails.
tilt-wherry n. a wherry having a tilt, a tilt-boat n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > for passengers or goods
wherry1443
tilt-boat1463
barge1470
wherry-boat1538
tilt-wherry1573
1573 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 219 ii Tylt whirreyes that caryed the Masking geare & Children.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tiltn.2
/tɪlt/, U.S. /tɪlt/ I. Senses relating to tilting as an exercise, sport, or combat.
1.
a. A combat or encounter (for exercise or sport) between two armed men on horseback, with lances or similar weapons, the aim of each being to throw his opponent from the saddle; = joust n. 1; also, the exercise of riding with a lance, or the like, at a mark, as the quintain.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > joust or tournament
tournament?c1225
joust1297
tourney13..
justeningc1400
tournament of warc1400
inturnementc1440
tilt1511
jostle1607
tilting?1617
hippomachia1623
carousel1650
fortuny1676
1511 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 181 Thise iiij Knightes shall present themself..in harneys for the Tylte.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 13 I maie commende hym for plaiyng at weapons, for runnyng vppon a greate horse, for chargyng his staffe at the Tilt.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. lvii. 74 [To] spend a hundred thousand Crowns in Tilt and Turney.
1745 Sir C. Williams in H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) II. App. 396 Low pleasures, such as operas, plays, masquerades, tilts, and tournaments.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 3 Forgetful of the tilt and tournament.
b. transferred and figurative. An encounter, combat, contest; a debate, public dispute or discussion. In 17–18th centuries often applied to a duel.
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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun]
i-winc888
wrestlingc890
fightc1000
flitec1000
teenOE
winOE
ungrithlOE
wara1200
cockingc1225
strife?c1225
strivingc1275
struta1300
barratc1300
thro1303
battlec1375
contentionc1384
tuggingc1440
militationa1460
sturtc1480
bargain1487
bargaining1489
distrifea1500
concertation1509
hold1523
conflict1531
ruffle1532
tangling1535
scamblingc1538
tuilyie1550
bustling1553
tilt1567
ruffling1570
wresting1570
certationc1572
pinglinga1578
reluctation1593
combating1594
yoking1594
bandying1599
tention1602
contrast1609
colluctation1611
contestationa1616
dimication1623
rixation1623
colluctance1625
decertation1635
conflicting1640
contrasto1645
dispute1647
luctation1651
contest1665
stickle1665
contra-colluctation1674
contrasting1688
struggle1706
yed1719
widdle1789
scrambling1792
cut and thrust1846
headbutting1869
push-and-pull1881
contending1882
thrust and parry1889
aggro1973
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > instance of
flitec1000
plead1379
traverse1415
controversyc1430
disputation1557
tilt1567
wrangle1579
controverse1596
velitation1607
dispute1611
rixation1623
polemic1626
fireball1638
polemy1642
risse1684
polemical1808
spar1836
row1879
set-to1898
cag1916
barge1934
yike1976
stand-up2005
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > academic or public disputation > [noun]
oppositionc1451
schoolsc1475
parvis1496
debatec1500
parley1577
probleming1657
tilt1709
responsion1841
1567 G. Turberville Epit. Dame Elyzabeth Arhundle 3 Who ran hir race in vertues tylt aright, And neuer had at Fortunes hand the foyle.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 21 He would not fly the tilt nor start from any colour of accusation.
1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 27 A modish Tilt upon a foolish hot-headed Punctilio.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 39. ⁋16 We..generally conducted our Dispute and Tilt according to the last that had happen'd between Persons of Reputation.
1882 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs ii I trust that our collision in the flesh has had no worse results than our tilts in print.
1906 Spectator 3 Feb. 173/2 She enjoys the tilt of rather rough speech.
c. A thrust of a weapon, as at a tilt. Now only figurative.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words > an attacking thrust
venue1590
thrust1668
tilt1716
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > [noun] > stroke with pointed weapon
stroke1297
stokea1400
foinc1450
stab1530
push1563
veny1578
stoccado1582
thrusta1586
venue1591
pink1601
longee1625
stob1653
tilt1716
lunge1748
stug1808
punzie1827
1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 10. ⁋5 His Majesty..entertain'd him with the Slaughter of two or three of his Liege Subjects, whom he very dexterously put to Death with the Tilt of his Lance.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xiv. 82 Miss Barnevelt took a tilt in heroics.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters viii. 200 She has a tilt at him, jeering, joking, mystifying, obfuscating him.
2. A place for holding tilts or jousts; a tilting ground or yard; the lists.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > lists or barriers
listc1386
champany?a1400
rangec1440
jousting-place1480
tilt?1507
tilt-yard1528
barracec1540
barrier1581
careera1586
steccado1600
tilting-yard1606
tilting ground1850
tilting field1859
?1507 C. Brandon et al. Iustes of Maye (de Worde) sig. A.iiv Two seruauntes of this lady of delyte Sholde be mounted, armed, and redy dyght At a tyltes ende.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 183 Vnes lices, a tylte to lerne to juste at.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xlvv The kyng..rode about the Tylt.
1564 N. Haward tr. Eutropius Briefe Chron. vii. sig. N.iii He fynyshed sondry pieces of work at Rome among which was..the Tilt [L. forum transitorium], a place for men to run in.
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. ix. 35 In beaten Pathes, ore boorded Tylthes [? Tyltes] to breake their staffe-like Reeds.
3. Phr. (from sense 1 or 2).
a. to run at (the) tilt: to ride in a tilt or joust.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > joust or tilt [verb (intransitive)]
playeOE
bourdisec1320
joustc1330
copec1350
tourney1390
coup?a1400
joustenc1400
to joust of warc1400
to run togetherc1410
bourda1500
to fight at barriers1532
runa1533
to run at (the) tilt1548
jostle1580
tilt1595
to break a treea1600
to run (or ride) a-tilt1608
to run tilt1831
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Decurrere in armis, to renne at the tylte in harneys.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. L4 When for her sake I ran at tilt in Fraunce, And there vnhorste the duke of Cleremont.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Courir la lance, to tilt, or, to run at tilt.
a1635 ‘T. Randall’ in Ann. Dubrensia (1636) sig. C4 As they at Tilt, so wee att Quintain runne.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 143 Henry II was killed running at Tilt.
b. So to run a tilt (see also a-tilt adv. 2, a prep.1); also figurative. Also rarely to run tilt.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > joust or tilt [verb (intransitive)]
playeOE
bourdisec1320
joustc1330
copec1350
tourney1390
coup?a1400
joustenc1400
to joust of warc1400
to run togetherc1410
bourda1500
to fight at barriers1532
runa1533
to run at (the) tilt1548
jostle1580
tilt1595
to break a treea1600
to run (or ride) a-tilt1608
to run tilt1831
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. v. 11 Breake a Launce, and runne a-Tilt at Death. View more context for this quotation
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 145 If you make two such bodies..to run a tilt upon such a line of odd leastings.
1765 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) I. iv. 99 The next..exhibits two knights running a tilt on the foreground.
1831 T. Carlyle Let. 15 Aug. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1976) V. 330 With her..I was provoked.., so pert was she, to run tilt, and I fear transfix her.
1871 D. M. Mulock Fair France i. 3 Like Don Quixote with his windmill..it is running a tilt against perfectly imaginary foes.
1891 Temple Bar Sept. 102 He runs tilt against the hypocrisies of social life.
c. full tilt (adverbial phr.): at full speed and with direct thrust; with utmost adverse force or impetus. Frequently in to run full tilt.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > at full speed
full speed1382
with topsailc1400
at spursa1500
on (also upon) the (spurs or) spur1525
amain1555
a main pace (also speed)1567
full tilt?a1600
upon full stretch1697
at full tilt1713
at (also on) full speed1749
(at) full split1836
full chisel1837
(at) full pelt1841
full swing1843
ventre à terre1848
full out1886
at full lick1889
hell-for-leather1889
all out1895
eyes out1895
flat out1932
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy > with utmost vigour
full tilt?a1600
all out1840
full out1886
full vent1927
flat out1932
at full stretch1934
balls-out1959
?a1600 Hist. Tom Thumb ii. 45 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) II. 213 The cook was running on full tilt, When Tom fell from the air.
1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 24 Drawing out his knife, [he] made at her Ladyship full tilt.
1861 Temple Bar Dec. 83 Managers of schools should run full tilt at the whole scheme.
1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 145 The Earl rode full tilt at him as though he would have unhorsed him.
II. The act or condition of being tilted, and related uses; inclination, slope.† 5. The liquor, or sediment, obtained by tilting a vessel; dregs, lees. Obsolete.
4.
a. The act of tilting, or fact or condition of being tilted (tilt v.1 4); a sudden or abrupt divergence from the normal vertical or horizontal position; inclination upward or downward.[Implied in quots. , 1560 at sense 4b, 1658 at sense 4b, 1706 at sense 4b ]
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > tilting or tipping
tilting1658
canting1769
tilt1837
tip1849
tipping1853
1837 C. Babbage 9th Bridgewater Treat. App. G. 196 The variation of pressure, and the infirmity of supports broken by weights or softened by heat, to produce tilts.
1859 All Year Round 12 Nov. 67 The twinkle of his eye, and the saucy tilt of his ragged cap, spoke volumes.
1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Apr. 262/1 Until one tilt, stronger than the others, upset the lamp.
1906 Daily News 5 Mar. 6 Leaning against the wall..with his stool at a perilous tilt.
b. on (also upon) the tilt: in a tilted position, like a cask or vessel raised on one end or side when nearly empty: = a-tilt adv. 1. Also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > obliquely [phrase] > tilted
on (also upon) the tilt1560
1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams xcii. sig. Bviiiv Tyll tubbe stande a tylte.
1658 T. Goodwin Fair Prospect Ded. sig. A3 When her natural strength, and Abilities began to run low, and on Tilt, as it were; Her Spiritual affections seemed as if but fresh broached.
1706 E. Baynard in J. Floyer Anc. Ψυχρολουσια Revived (rev. ed.) ii. 234 When (low drawn) Time's upon the Tilt, Few Sands and Minuts left to run.
1712 Spectator No. 292. ⁋4 Liberality..performed with such Chearfulness..that may shew Good-nature and Benevolence overflowed, and do not, as in some Men, run upon the Tilt, and taste of the Sediments of a grutching uncommunicative Disposition.
c. Geology. An abrupt upheaval of strata to a considerable angle from the horizontal.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > tectonization or diastrophism > [noun] > upheaval > tilt
tilt1859
1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 354 Tilted up, applied to strata that are suddenly or abruptly thrown up at a high angle of inclination. Tilts of this nature are usually accompanied by fractures and crushings of the strata.
d. gen. A slope, or sloping portion, of the surface of the ground.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun]
hield943
lithOE
pendanta1387
bankc1390
slentc1400
shoring1567
rist1577
inclining1596
slope1626
side-slip1649
slant1655
sideling1802
hang1808
siding1852
counterslope1853
bajada1866
tilt1903
palaeoslope1957
1903 G. A. Smith in Expositor Jan. 7 This tilt towards Olivet does not exhaust the eastern bent and disposition of the city.
1910 Daily News 27 Aug. 4 As we crossed a tilt of the torn heath I saw suddenly between myself and the moon a black shapeless pile.
e. Television and Cinematography. (See quot. 1959.)
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > camera movement
boom1931
rostrum1935
tilting1938
tilt1959
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > camera movements > [noun]
panning1917
pan1922
panoraming1927
camera movement1929
zooming1934
tilting1938
tilt1959
whip-pan1960
1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation 342 Tilt, the upward or downward pivoting movement of the camera across the screen.
1963 D. Botting in A. Smith Throw out Two Hands App. i. 266 A Miller tripod with a fully fluid head..giving smooth, controlled pans and tilts even with extreme long-focus lenses.
f. figurative. An inclination; a bias.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > a tendency
spirita1425
inclination1526
bias?1571
vein1585
habitude1603
ply1605
nitency1662
result1663
tend1663
penchant1673
nisus1699
hank1721
squint1736
patent1836
subjectivism1845
lurch1854
biasness1872
tilt1975
1975 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 11 May 14 The contribution to the American language of other cultures has long been acknowledged..but it is unscholarly to insist on a ‘tilt’ toward minority contribution to satisfy resentment over past neglect.
1978 Time 18 Dec. 40 The pro-Soviet tilt of the new rulers in Kabul, the Afghan capital, is already stirring some recriminations in Washington.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > dregs or lees in vessel or cask
drastc1000
drosenc1000
drega1300
lagsa1525
bottom1563
snuff1592
tilta1603
tilting1611
heeltap1753
dunder1774
tops and bottoms1905
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless
hawc1000
turdc1275
fille1297
dusta1300
lead1303
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naught1340
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goose-wing1377
fartc1390
chaff?a1400
nutshella1400
shalec1400
yardc1400
wrack1472
pelfrya1529
trasha1529
dreg1531
trish-trash1542
alchemy1547
beggary?1548
rubbish1548
pelfa1555
chip1556
stark naught1562
paltry?1566
rubbish1566
riff-raff1570
bran1574
baggage1579
nihil1579
trush-trash1582
stubblea1591
tartar1590
garbage1592
bag of winda1599
a cracked or slit groat1600
kitchen stuff1600
tilta1603
nothing?1608
bauble1609
countera1616
a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620
buttermilk1630
dross1632
paltrement1641
cattle1643
bagatelle1647
nothingness1652
brimborion1653
stuff1670
flap-dragon1700
mud1706
caput mortuuma1711
snuff1778
twaddle1786
powder-post1790
traffic1828
junk1836
duffer1852
shice1859
punk1869
hogwash1870
cagmag1875
shit1890
tosh1892
tripe1895
dreck1905
schlock1906
cannon fodder1917
shite1928
skunk1929
crut1937
chickenshit1938
crud1943
Mickey Mouse1958
gick1959
garbo1978
turd1978
pants1994
a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 449 The tilt and lees of traditions, dregges of custome, and poyson of Popish decrees.
6.
a. A contrivance used in North America in fishing through a hole in the ice, in which a stick or cross-piece is tilted up when the fish takes the hook.
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1891 in Cent. Dict.
b. On a pinball table or machine, a device that stops the game if the table or machine is jarred or lifted (see quot. 19761). Also figurative and attributive, as tilt mechanism, etc.The tilt mechanism was invented by H. Williams in 1933, and was first used on a ‘Signal’ machine manufactured by Bally Co. in 1934. Early illustrations of this use are not easy to trace.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others > specific part
tilt mechanism1976
1934 Billboard (Cincinnati) 17 Nov. 67 (advt.) Anti-tilt.]
1953 Business Week 19 Dec. 55/2 Tilt, says Court… A federal court handed down a ruling that would put a pinball machine in the same category as a slot machine if a player gets a cash payoff.
1972 G. L. Morrisey Appraisal & Devel. through Objectives & Results v. 62 We should bear in mind that a performance expectation or standard is a red flag. It says, ‘Whoa! Stop! Tilt! Something's wrong!’
1976 H. McKeown Pinball Portfolio viii. 156/2 If a table is moved too much during a game in an effort to alter the course of the ball, a tilt mechanism cancels either the whole game or the ball in play.
1976 H. McKeown Pinball Portfolio viii. 156/2 When the game is tilted all the lights go out and the word tilt is illuminated in the backflash glass.
1983 Times 30 Dec. 22/7 The pinball machine flashes ‘tilt’.
c. to (light up and) say ‘tilt’, to register by one's look or reaction that something is wrong. colloquial.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > doubt, be uncertain [verb (intransitive)] > express doubt
perhaps1783
humph1814
vague1880
umph1894
to (light up and) say ‘tilt’1974
1953 [see sense 6b]. 1972 [see sense 6b].
1974 L. Deighton Spy Story xvi. 173 Anything concerning submarines made Dawlish light up and say tilt.
1980 G. Hammond Reward Game xi. 157 ‘No, we've already been offered forty by Frank Hutch—’ ‘That should make him light up and say “Tilt”,’ Keith said with satisfaction.
1984 L. Deighton Mexico Set viii. 113 ‘It's nothing to do with virtue and evil… It's a game of chance.’ ‘Is there nothing that lights up and says ‘tilt’ when you cheat?’
7. In Newfoundland: a pier on which fishermen unload and dress their fish.
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1891 in Cent. Dict.
8. Short for tilt-hammer n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > forge-hammer
tilt-hammer1773
trip-hammer1781
forge-hammer1815
skelper1831
tilt1831
oliver1846
set-hammer1855
helve-hammer1858
striker1869
belly-helve1881
society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > mechanical and power hammers > types of
tilt-hammer1773
trip-hammer1781
tilt1831
Nasmyth1845
oliver1846
helve-hammer1858
striker1869
belly-helve1881
chipping hammer1988
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 241 The annexed figure is the plan of a tilt.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 167 [By] welding and forging by the heavy hammer, reducing by a tilt and rolling down to the smallest description of rod, a most excellent, tenacious, and dense body of iron is thus obtained.
1896 Daily News 27 Jan. 8/5 The activity at the forges, rolling mills, and tilts where large quantities..are prepared.
III. A bird, named after its jerking motion.
9. The stilt or long-legged plover of North America. Cf. tilt-up n. 2.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > genus Himantopus (stilt)
Himantopus1753
long-legged plover1766
stilt-plover1779
Longshanks1804
stilt1831
tilt1831
stilt-bird1835
stilt-shank1852
1831 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. III. 77 The name by which this bird is known on the seacoast is the stilt or tilt, or long-shanks.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Lawyer. 1. (Himantopus nigricollis.) The black-necked Stilt..known also by the names of Tilt and Longshanks.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. See also tilt-hammer n., tilt-yard n.
tilt-day n.
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1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 174 At the next Tilte-day following.
tilt-horse n.
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1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams vi. sig. Aivv A Tylte horse, alias a beere horse to bee, Which woludst thou bee?
C2.
tilt cab n. a cab of a lorry, etc., which can tilt forwards.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > truck or lorry > cab or type of cab
cab1916
cab-over1943
tilt cab1963
1963 Lebende Sprachen 8 166/1 Tilt cab.
1977 Horse & Hound 10 June 42/1 (advt.) Container 21ft Williams with Luton for tilt cab, metal framed and in sound order.
tilt-cart n. a cart of which the body can be tilted so as to empty out the contents.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > dumper or tipper
tumbril1440
tumbling car1811
tilt-cart1834
dumper1856
tipper1920
1834 J. B. Buckstone Wreck Ashore ii. iii. 40 I ha' just brought him home from the Physickiners in a tilt cart.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 660 If they are tilt or coup-carts, he elevates the front a few inches.
tilt-forge n. a forge in which a tilt-hammer is used.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with metal > [noun] > forge or smithy > types of
smithy mill1523
bloom-smithy1601
tilt-forge1836
tilt house1864
goldsmithy1878
1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 39 339 We passed some usines, tilt-forges, where the makers of nails [etc.] use the power to tilt hammers of small water wheels placed on one of the..streams.
tilt guard n. see under tilt-yard n.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for guard duty > others
Tilt Yard guard1528
safeguard1609
Irish guard1642
water-guard1776
forage-guard1819
tilt guard1894
1894 Times 28 May 6/1 The 2nd Life Guards, furnishing the tilt guard, sent a squadron of about 50 of all ranks.
1909 Daily Chron. 20 Feb. 5/3 What we call the Horse Guards, which was then called the Tilt Yard (where the guard, I think, is still called the Tilt guard).
tilt house n. = tilt-mill n. (b).
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with metal > [noun] > forge or smithy > types of
smithy mill1523
bloom-smithy1601
tilt-forge1836
tilt house1864
goldsmithy1878
1864 G. L. M. Strauss et al. England's Workshops 90 Two hammer or tilt houses.
tiltmeter n. Geology an instrument for measuring changes in the steepness of a slope.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring gradient
clinometer1811
angle-meter1841
inclinometer1852
gradiometer1899
gradometer1901
tiltmeter1937
1937 Nature 10 Apr. 616/1 In both the Tango and Ito districts, tiltmeters..were erected.
1980 New Scientist 26 June 388/2 Everything that is happening to Mount St Helens is a ‘classroom’ experience for geologists and scientists scrambling to gather as much data as they can with seismic recording instruments, tiltmeters, and water level gauges.
tilt-mill n. (a) the machinery for working a tilt-hammer; (b) a building in which a tilt-hammer is worked.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > forge-hammer > machinery for
hammer-mill1610
forge-mill1728
tilt-mill1825
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 337 The tilt-mills employed in the manufacture of steel.
tilt-rod n. a curved rod projecting from the rear of a tricycle so as to catch the ground in the event of the machine being tilted backward.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > parts of tricycle
tilt-wheel1886
tilt-rod1912
1912 J. T. Fowler Let. to Editor (O.E.D. Archive) Modern tricycles cannot be tilted backward, and so do not require tilt-rods.
tilt-staff n. a staff used instead of a lance in tilting.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment
spear of peacea1400
timberc1400
tilting-staff1602
Saracen1637
tilt-staff1651
tilting armour1819
tilting-helmet1846
tilting-lance1863
tilting spear-
1651 W. Sanderson Aulicus Coquinariæ 69 He medled not with the Tilt-staff.
tilt-top adj. having a top that tilts.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > [adjective] > of or relating to the top > having (a) top(s) > specific
coped1611
drum-headed1664
red-topped1701
mushroom-headed1832
tilt-top1940
1940 J. I. Crump & N. Maul Our Airliners vii. 138 For this disassembling operation, the engine is bolted on a portable tilttop table.
1973 Canad. Antiques Collector Jan. 12/1 A birch tilt-top candlestand with an oval top.
tilt-wheel n. (a) a little wheel at the end of the tilt-rod of a tricycle; (b) U.S. a steering wheel that tilts.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > parts of tricycle
tilt-wheel1886
tilt-rod1912
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > steering, suspension, or wheels > steering wheel > type of
tilt-wheel1886
1886 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. IV. 144 Tilt wheels loose are very noisy.
1974 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 15 Feb. 19- b/7 (advt.) Power steering, power brakes, tilt wheel, vinyl roof, rally wheels.
tilt-wing adj. and n. (designating) an aircraft with wings that tilt.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > with wings of adjustable sweep or tilt
tilt-wing1953
swing wing1965
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [adjective] > having specific type or position of wings
multiplane1897
monoplane1907
all-wing1919
mid-wing1934
delta-winged1950
tilt-wing1953
stub-winged1957
wet wing1961
1953 W. A. Shrader Fifty Years of Flight 124/2 Spratt Aircraft Co...test-flies another in a series of tilt-wing flying boats designed by George Spratt.
1963 Times 2 Dec. 9/7 Two prototypes of a twin-engined ‘tilt-wing’ short and vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft.
1970 New Scientist 23 Apr. 173/1 Several tilt-wings have flown satisfactorily.
Draft additions 1993
tilt rotor n. Aeronautics = tilting rotor at tilting adj. Additions b; hence, an aircraft fitted with these; frequently attributive.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun]
rotorcraft1929
tilt rotor1961
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [adjective]
rotary-wing1908
tilt rotor1961
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > parts of rotary wing aircraft > rotor
ascensional screw1901
lifting screw1902
rotor1915
windmill1931
tilting rotor1940
tilt rotor1961
1961 P. W. Brooks Mod. Airliner vi. 153 Various categories of V.T.O.L. aircraft..Tilt-rotor convertiplane (1954). Transcendental Model 1- g, Bell xv-3.
1963 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 67 363/1 The unloaded rotor, the tilt rotor, various ducted fans, fans in wings, and so forth, were eliminated and the final selection was the tilt-wing.
1976 J. Fay Helicopter (ed. 3) ix. 147 In the tilt-rotor machine the rotors are mounted at the tips of relatively small wings.
1987 New Scientist 1 Oct. 38/1 The designers of the new hybrid call their aircraft a tiltrotor. It takes off as a helicopter, the rotors on the wing then tilt..so that the aircraft can fly as a conventional turboprop aircraft.
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tilt switch n. a switch which permits a current to pass only when tilted (or not tilted) beyond a certain angle.
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1946 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 59 587 Fastened to the lower lever are three mercury tilt-switches. Two of these switches operate shielded lights on the experimenter's..control table.
1979 Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 3/2 There was speculation in military circles..that the bomb which killed Lord Mountbatten was activated by a ‘tiltswitch’ device like the one used in the murder of Mr Airey Neave.
2004 K. Smith Environmental Hazards (ed. 4) vii. 138 Automatic avalanche detectors, using tilt switches, are suspended from a cableway near to the road over the most active avalanche track.
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tilt shot n. Cinematography a camera shot which pivots up or down in a vertical plane.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > shot > types of shot
long shot1858
close-up1913
medium shot1925
travelling shot1927
medium close-up1933
reverse angle1933
three-shot1934
tilt shot1934
reaction shot1937
tracking shot1940
Dutch angle1947
two-shot1949
mid shot1953
freeze1960
freeze-frame1960
freeze-shot1960
frozen-frame1960
pack shot1960
noddy1982
arc shot1989
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > shot > [noun] > types of
long shot1858
glass shot1908
close-up1913
aerial shot1920
angle shot1922
medium shot1925
far-away1926
travelling shot1927
zoom1930
zoom shot1930
process shot1931
close-medium shot1933
medium close-up1933
reverse angle1933
reverse shot1934
three-shot1934
tilt shot1934
medium-close shot1937
reaction shot1937
tracking shot1940
pan shot1941
stock shot1941
Dutch angle1947
cheat shot1948
establishing shot1948
master-scene1948
trucking shot1948
two-shot1949
bridging shot1951
body shot1952
library shot1953
master shot1953
mid shot1953
MS1953
pullback1957
MCU1959
noddy1982
arc shot1989
pop shot1993
1934 Movie Makers June 249/2 The frame was clipped from footage of a pause at the end of a tilt shot of one of the numerous towers that are found in Sweden.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Dec. 1437/4 He has preferred a montage of head-and-shoulder portraits, enlivened by some gentle panning and the occasional tilt-shot.
2007 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 1 Sept. t17 This black and white mystery is big on atmosphere, short on exposition and opens with an eight-minute tilt shot that creeps..up..the..prow..of..a..ship.
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at full tilt: at full speed; with maximum energy or force; at full capacity.Cf. earlier full tilt at sense 3c.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > at full speed
full speed1382
with topsailc1400
at spursa1500
on (also upon) the (spurs or) spur1525
amain1555
a main pace (also speed)1567
full tilt?a1600
upon full stretch1697
at full tilt1713
at (also on) full speed1749
(at) full split1836
full chisel1837
(at) full pelt1841
full swing1843
ventre à terre1848
full out1886
at full lick1889
hell-for-leather1889
all out1895
eyes out1895
flat out1932
1713 tr. P. Poiret Divine Œconomy I. xv. 245 The Desire of the Soul..can make but one Step more..: 'tis to run at full tilt, as I may say, and, like a Desperado, make a last Effort with Ardour.
1831 Q. Rev. 45 252 The Movement [for parliamentary reform] is still on the advance, and just now at full tilt.
1976 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 5 Jan. 48 In Wilmington, auto factories are operating at full tilt, and the Chrysler assembly plant plans to add 400 workers in January.
2004 Sunday Times Trav. Feb. 40/3 Our guide let him drive the boat at full tilt down the Mary River.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† tiltn.3
slang. Obsolete.
A cant name for some species of rogue.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun]
harlot?c1225
truantc1290
shreward1297
boyc1300
lidderon13..
cokinc1330
pautenerc1330
bribera1387
bricouna1400
losarda1400
rascal?a1400
custronc1400
knapea1450
sloven?a1475
limmerc1485
knavatec1506
smaik?1507
smy?1507
koken?a1513
swinger1513
Cock Lorel?1518
pedlar's French1530
varletc1540
losthope?c1550
makeshift1554
wild rogue1567
miligant1568
rogue1568
crack-halter1573
rascallion1582
schelm1584
scoundrel1589
scaba1592
bezonian1592
slave1592
rampallion1593
Scanderbeg1601
roly-poly1602
canter1608
cantler1611
gue1612
fraudsman1613
Cathayana1616
crack-hempa1616
foiterer1616
tilt1620
picaro1622
picaroon1629
sheepmanc1640
rapscallion1648
scaramouch1677
fripon1691
trickster1711
shake-bag1794
sinner1809
cad1838
badmash1843
scattermouch1892
jazzbo1914
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal
harlot?c1225
knavec1275
truantc1290
shreward1297
boinarda1300
boyc1300
lidderon13..
cokinc1330
pautenerc1330
bribera1387
bricouna1400
losarda1400
rascal?a1400
knapea1450
lotterela1450
limmerc1485
Tutivillus1498
knavatec1506
smy?1507
koken?a1513
swinger1513
Cock Lorel?1518
pedlar's French1530
cust1535
rabiator1535
varletc1540
Jack1548
kern1556
wild rogue1567
miligant1568
rogue1568
tutiviller1568
rascallion1582
schelm1584
scoundrel1589
rampallion1593
Scanderbeg1601
scroyle1602
canter1608
cantler1611
skelm1611
gue1612
Cathayana1616
foiterer1616
tilt1620
picaro1622
picaroon1629
sheepmanc1640
rapscallion1648
marrow1656
Algerine1671
scaramouch1677
fripon1691
shake-bag1794
badling1825
tiger1827
two-for-his-heels1837
ral1846
skeezicks1850
nut1882
gun1890
scattermouch1892
tug1896
natkhat1901
jazzbo1914
scutter1940
bar steward1945
hoor1965
1620 T. Dekker Dreame sig. E3v Base Heapes tumbled together,..High-way-standers, Foists, Nips, and Iylts, Prinadoes, Bawdes, Pimpes, Panders.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
tiltv.1
/tɪlt/, U.S. /tɪlt/ I. To push over, and related uses.† 1. transitive. To cause to fall; to thrust, push, throw down or over; to overthrow, overturn, upset. Obsolete (except as in senses 4c, 6b).† 2. intransitive. To fall over, tumble; be overthrown.
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the world > space > relative position > inversion > invert [verb (transitive)] > cause to fall
tilta1400
waltc1400
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > capsize or upset
overcastc1230
overturnc1300
overthrowc1330
to-turna1382
overwhelm?a1400
tilta1400
tipa1400
welt?a1400
overtiltc1400
tirvec1420
reverse?a1439
devolvec1470
subvert1479
welter?a1505
renverse1521
tumble1534
verse1556
upturn1567
overwhirl1577
rewalt1587
subverse1590
overset1599
overtumble1600
walt1611
to fetch up1615
ramvert1632
treveer1636
transvolve1644
capsize1788
upset1806
keel1828
overwelt1828
pitch-pole1851
purl1856
a1400–50 Alexander 1303 Sone þe top of þe toure he tiltis in-to þe watir.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1213 Ouer-tok hem, as tyd, tult hem of sadeles.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 832 Þe trestes tylt to þe woȝe & þe table boþe.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1704/1 He..sayd to his wife; Mistres Ales what milke haue you giuen me here? wherewithal she tylted [1587 tilted] it ouer with her hand, saying, I wene nothing can please you.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > topple over
welt13..
tiltc1390
overfalla1400
waltc1400
tirvec1425
top over tervea1450
overtumble1487
overwelta1522
to fall over1541
top1545
topple1600
tramble1609
tope1796
tottle1830
overtopple1855
whemmel1895
pitch-pole1896
c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 100 Feole temples þer-inne tulten to þe eorþe, for heore false ymages þat þei on leeueden.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1144 Untenderly fro þe toppe thai tiltin to-gederz.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 361 Truly þis ilk toun schal tylte to grounde.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 252 With-outen towche of any tothe he [Jonah] tult in his [the whale's] þrote.
3. intransitive. To move unsteadily up and down; esp. of waves or a ship at sea, to pitch.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)]
hobblec1330
wave1406
stamperc1450
fleet15..
titubate1540
wamble1589
tilt1594
vacillate1598
waggle1611
wimple1819
wangle1820
waver1841
lurch1851
woggle1871
teeter1904
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido i. i Phrygian ships..so wrack'd and welter'd by the waves, As every tide tilts 'twixt their oaken sides.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. ii. 6 What obseruation mad'st thou in this case? Oh, his hearts Meteors tilting in his face? View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 747 The floating Vessel..with beaked prow Rode tilting o're the Waves. View more context for this quotation
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 289 And tilting o'er the bay the vessels ride.
1826 A. A. Watts Death Pompey v A bark comes tilting through the spray.
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 238 To and fro, up and down, did I tilt upon those mountainous seas.
1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People xxviii. 238 The..tree..where the bobolink was tilting up and down.
II. To cause to lean, and related uses.
4.
a. transitive. To cause to lean abruptly from the vertical or incline abruptly from the horizontal; to slope, slant; to tilt up, to raise one end or side above the other, to tip up. Also figurative.In Geology used in passive of strata inclined abruptly upwards from their horizontal position: cf. tilt n.2 4c.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline [verb (transitive)] > place in a sloping position > tilt
sway1570
tilt1594
tip1624
tope1684
cant1711
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > tend or incline [verb (transitive)] > tend, lead, or conduce to
forwenda1325
tend1560
sway1570
affect1612
to trench on or upon1622
apta1640
predeterminea1667
to go far to1668
to run into ——1753
orient1952
tilt1976
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 59 It is also very good to tilt your beere, when the Vessel is little more then halfe drawn off, for so you shall draw your beere good euen to the latter end.
1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme iv. sig. H3 Giue her a little more ayre, tilt vp her head.
1807 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 199 By gently lifting up or tilting the lens.
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 340 Sedimentary beds tilted up, and more or less contorted on the flanks of the mountains.
1868 F. H. Joynson Metals in Constr. 19 Where the waggons are tilted and their contents shot out.
1908 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 319/2 His helmet tilted well to the rear to screen his neck.
1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 Nov. 1/3 The UN [sc. Union Nationale] will have taken seats from the Liberals and acted as spoiler in many other ridings, tilting the victory toward the Parti Quebecois.
1979 N.Y. Post 8 Aug. 2/5 Yesterday Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan charged that the U.S. was tilting its policy toward the PLO to appease Saudi Arabia and insure a steady flow of oil at reasonable prices.
b. intransitive. To move into a slanted position or direction; to incline, slope, slant, heel over, tip up. Also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)] > slope > tilt
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tip1666
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > tend or incline [verb (intransitive)]
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driveOE
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set1778
slant1850
trend1863
tilt1967
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §155 Keeping it even, that it may not tilt on either side.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 202 Letting the hither side of the Board rest upon the hither Ledge of the Rincing-Trough; that the Form may tilt downwards.
1795 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 408 The tube..by its great weight..will..tilt backwards.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 274 He accidentally set his foot upon a loose plank, which tilted up, and he fell into the water.
1909 Daily Chron. 24 Feb. 1/5 South Africa also tilts to the east in summer and to the west in winter. This is probably traceable to the seasonal rainfall.
1967 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Nov. 2/9 During the India-Pakistan war, President Nixon ordered assistance to one side... Press reports at the time said Mr. Nixon wanted to ‘tilt’ in favour of Pakistan.
1978 Guardian Weekly 22 Jan. 17/3 Officials tend to tilt toward secrecy from a parochial view of their responsibilities.
c. transitive. To pour or empty out (the contents of a vessel), or cause them to flow to one side, by tilting the vessel.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or fact of pouring or being poured > pour [verb (transitive)] > out > specifically by tilting a vessel
hieldc1200
tilt1614
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > empty > empty (contents) > by tilting or tipping
tip1838
canta1845
tilt1865
1614 [implied in: T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow (4th impr.) sig. F Her bodie is the tilted Lees of pleasure. (at tilted adj.2 2)].
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xii. 113 He poured the wine into his mouth, tilted it into his right cheek.
1865 G. H. Lewes in Fortn. Rev. 2 702 To tumble out their sentences as they would tilt stones from a cart.
1883 J. T. Taylor Hardwich's Man. Photogr. Chem. (ed. 9) 281 Tilt the developing fluid backwards and forwards upon the film for about thirty seconds.
1899 Daily News 20 Nov. 7/5 They object to being tilted out of a truck like potatoes out of a sack.
d. Television and Cinematography. To move (a camera) in a vertical plane.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > transmit by television [verb (transitive)] > camera movement
tilt1915
pan1930
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > camera movements > move camera [verb (transitive)]
tilt1915
pan1930
zoom1944
1915 A. Lockett in B. E. Jones Cinematograph Bk. iv. 26 Tilting the camera causes convergence of upright lines.
III. [ < tilt n.2 1] Senses relating to the exercise, sport, or contest of tilting.
5. † b. transferred. See quots. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To engage in a tilt or joust; to joust.
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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)]
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tilt1595
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scuffle1601
to run (or ride) a-tilt1608
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > joust or tilt [verb (intransitive)]
playeOE
bourdisec1320
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coup?a1400
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to joust of warc1400
to run togetherc1410
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to fight at barriers1532
runa1533
to run at (the) tilt1548
jostle1580
tilt1595
to break a treea1600
to run (or ride) a-tilt1608
to run tilt1831
1595 T. Edwards Narcissus in Cephalus & Procris (1882) 62 Although he differs much from men Tilting under Frieries.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Courir la lance, to tilt, or, to run at tilt.
1622 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 305 He ran at the ring, and tilted with the Lord Montjoy.
1694 J. Collier Misc. iv. 37 'Tis not yet the Fashion for Women of Quality to Tilt.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 26 But in this tournament can no man tilt, Except the lady he loves best be there.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fence [verb (intransitive)]
playeOE
skirmisha1387
to play at bucklersa1500
swash1556
fencea1616
tilt1699
wrench1771
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew To tilt, to fight with a Rapier.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Tilt, to run at Tilts, to fence or thrust with Swords or Foils.
c. transferred and figurative. To engage in a contest; to combat, encounter, contend (with); to strike or thrust at with a weapon, to charge or impinge against.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)]
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to set on ——c1290
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to turn one's handc1325
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to set against ——c1330
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to lay at?a1400
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to set at ——c1430
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to fall aboard——1593
yoke1596
to let into1598
to fall foul1602
attack1655
do1780
to go in at1812
to pitch into ——1823
tackle1828
vampire1832
bushwhack1837
to go for ——1838
take1864
pile1867
volcano1867
to set about ——1879
vampirize1888
to get stuck into1910
to take to ——1911
weigh1941
rugby-tackle1967
rugger-tackle1967
society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)]
envyc1369
to try (also play, prove, etc.) masteriesa1393
strive?c1450
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tilt1589
to drop vie(s)1599
to prove conclusions1601
to try (a) conclusion1601
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > strike at
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1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. I Her eyes were like the fierie torches tilting against the Moone.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 483 Loe, he is tilting straight. View more context for this quotation
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 157 He tilts With piercing steele at bold Mercutios breast. View more context for this quotation
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. i. 17 Against whose naked brest The surges tilted.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 194 With which Horn he tilteth at his prey.
1733 A. Pope 1st Satire 2nd Bk. Horace Imitated ii. i. 11 Satire's my Weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a Muck, and tilt at all I meet.
1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 25 I resolved..never to tilt with a French lady in compliment.
1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 12 Coifi struck down the idol..tilting at it with his spear.
d. To ‘charge’ into a place or on some one; to run against, rush or burst in, through, etc.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and violently
driveeOE
fallOE
reseOE
routOE
rashOE
swip?c1225
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1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xviii He..seized a long lance, threw open the gates, and tilted out on the rabble.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) ii. 21 Not at all sure that I might not tilt against old John in the dark.
1873 W. D. Howells Chance Acquaintance iv. 96 Tilting along through the crowd with a half-staggering run.
6. transitive (loose uses):
a. To poise (the lance) for a thrust.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make attack [verb (intransitive)]
onreseeOE
onslayc1275
entera1425
to be upon (also on) a person's jack1588
endeavour?1589
to fall aboard1591
to let fly1611
strikea1616
to lift (up) the hand(s, (occasionally one's arm)1655
to fall on board (of)1658
tilt1708
to walk into ——1794
to run in1815
to peg it1834
to sail in1856
to wade in1863
to light in1868
to roll into ——1888
to make for ——1893
1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 603 Sons against Fathers tilt the fatal Lance.
c1870 B. Harte Twenty Years in Poems (1886) 36 The apple-blooms shook on the hill; And the mullein-stalks tilted each lance.
b. To tilt at; to rush at, charge; to drive or thrust by tilting.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > make hostile approach to
runOE
to seek on (also upon)c1230
pursuec1300
yerna1400
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to come at ——1601
to make against ——1628
to make at ——1637
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to come for ——1870
to move in1941
bum-rush1988
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > tilt at [verb (transitive)]
runa1533
tilt1796
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 465 Shooting at a mark or tilting it with darts.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxiv Never so happy as when they can tilt a gentleman logician out of his saddle.
1893 Cornhill Mag. June 597 The wood~cock often disport themselves,..tilting one another with ruffled plumage.
c. To drive or thrust with violence.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push > with force or violence
thrustc1175
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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 11 A tempest..Oure ships to Libye land with rough extremitye tilted.
1694 J. Collier Misc. iv. 21 If it was the Custom to Tilt your Head against a Post.
IV. [ < tilt-hammer n.]
7. transitive. To forge or work with a tilt-hammer.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > forge or shape > in specific way
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stub1869
upend1932
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coin1940
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 770 It is cast into ingots, which by gentle heating and careful hammering, are tilted into bars.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 241 All steel, whether cast or skear, which is to be used for the best articles, should be tilted to the strength required.
1889 Q. Rev. July 137 When ‘piled’ and ‘tilted’; that is..cut up into short lengths, laid in bundles, reheated, welded, and consolidated into a solid mass under the tilt hammer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tiltv.2
/tɪlt/, U.S. /tɪlt/ transitive. To cover with a tilt or awning. (Chiefly in past participle)
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > seek (refuge) [verb (transitive)] > shelter > shelter from weather > with an awning
tilt1499
teld?1553
awn1844
1499 [implied in: Promptorium Parvulorum (Pynson) sig. qvi/2 Teltinge, gaudacio. (at tilting n.2)].
1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 32v To row vpon the riuer in Barges tilted with purple and silke.
1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hippodamia (1878) 22 Omaus king doth stay Ere this time long in closet tilte To heare what we can say.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 295 A great barke..very well tilted and dressed.
1818 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 87 479 Felt, with which they tilted their waggons.
1839 Sat. Mag. Supp., June 253/2 The cart is tilted with canes and straw neatly wattled.
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