noun a thrust, as with a lance.
2. tilt ·vt to point or thrust a weapon at.
3. tilt ·vt to point or thrust, as a lance.
4. tilt ·vt to cover with a tilt, or awning.
5. tilt ·noun ·see tilt hammer, in the vocabulary.
6. tilt ·noun a covering overhead; especially, a tent.
7. tilt ·noun the cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
8. tilt ·noun inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
9. tilt ·vi to lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
10. tilt ·noun a cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
11. tilt ·vt to hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
12. tilt ·noun a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
13. tilt ·vt to incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
14. tilt ·vi 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.