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- English Word Tilt Definition To point or thrust, as a lance.
- English Word Tilt Definition To point or thrust a weapon at.
- English Word Tilt Definition To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
- English Word Tilt Definition 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.
- English Word Tilt Definition To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
- English Word Tilt Definition A thrust, as with a lance.
- English Word Tilt Definition A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
- English Word Tilt Definition See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
- English Word Tilt Definition Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
- English Word Tilt hammer Definition A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.
- English Word Tilt-mill Definition A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.
- English Word Tilt-up Definition Same as Tip-up.
- English Word Tilt-yard Definition A yard or place for tilting.
- English Word Tilted Definition of Tilt
- English Word Tilter Definition One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.
- English Word Tilter Definition One who operates a tilt hammer.
- English Word Tilth Definition The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth.
- English Word Tilth Definition That which is tilled; tillage ground.
- English Word Tilting Definition of Tilt
- English Word Tilting Definition The act of one who tilts; a tilt.
- English Word Tilting Definition The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
- English Word Tim-whiskey Definition A kind of carriage. See Whiskey.
- English Word Timal Definition The blue titmouse.
- English Word Timaline Definition Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family Timalidae, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.
- English Word Timbal Definition A kettledrum. See Tymbal.
- English Word Timber Definition A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.
- English Word Timber Definition The crest on a coat of arms.
- English Word Timber Definition To surmount as a timber does.
- English Word Timber Definition That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
- English Word Timber Definition The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.