Definition of tilt

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Tilt (v. i.) To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances..

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Tourney :: Tourney (n.) To perform in tournaments; to tilt.
Tilt :: Tilt (v. t.) To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile..
Keeve :: Keeve (v. t.) To heave; to tilt, as a cart..
Stime :: Stilty (a.) Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style..
Finedrawn :: Finedrawn (a.) Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations..
Scholasticism :: Scholasticism (n.) The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.
Oliver :: Oliver (n.) A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot..
School :: School (n.) One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning..
Stilt :: Stilt (n.) A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm..
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) A covering overhead; especially, a tent..
Cant :: Cant (v. t.) To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship..
Atilt :: Atilt (adv.) In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. [In this sense sometimes used as an adjective.].
Lawyer :: Lawyer (n.) The black-necked stilt. See Stilt.
Stilting :: Stilted (imp. & p. p.) of Stil.
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask..
Vamplate :: Vamplate (n.) A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand..
Cronel :: Cronel (n.) The iron head of a tilting spear.
Scholastic :: Scholastic (a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal..
Stiltify :: Stilted (a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation..
Refine :: Refine (v. i.) To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
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