Tilt

A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.

To cover with a tilt, or awning.

To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

To point or thrust, as a lance.

To point or thrust a weapon at.

To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

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.

To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.

A thrust, as with a lance.

A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.

See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.

Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"