the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline [verb (transitive)] > place in a sloping position (18)
transitive. To place in a sloping position. Now only dialect, to tilt (a cask). Cf. stoop, v.1 12.
transitive. To bring into, to place or put in, a sloping or slanting position; to bend down; to direct downwards or obliquely.