Definition of tilt

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Tilt (v. t.) To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile..

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Tilt :: Tilt (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary..
Tilter :: Tilter (n.) One who operates a tilt hammer.
Scholastic :: Scholastic (a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal..
Finesse :: Finesse (a.) Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.
Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia..
Oliver :: Oliver (n.) A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot..
Burr :: Burr (n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping..
Atilt :: Atilt (adv.) In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust..
Warbler :: Warbler (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily Mniotiltidae, or Sylvicolinae. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical..
Stiltbird :: Stilt (v. t.) To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts..
Tilt-mill :: Tilt-mill (n.) A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on..
Longshanks :: Longshanks (n.) The stilt.
Dump :: Dump (v. t.) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc..
Vamplate :: Vamplate (n.) A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand..
Tilt-up :: Tilt-up (n.) Same as Tip-up.
Subtilty :: Subtilty (n.) Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety.
Johnsonese :: "Johnsonese (n.) The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words..
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
Stilty :: Stiltify (v. t.) To raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt..
Stilted :: Stiltbird (n.) See Stilt, n., 3..
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