Crossword-Solution: TILT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tilt | n. | A covering overhead; especially, a tent. |
| Tilt | n. | The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. |
| Tilt | n. | A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. |
| Tilt | v. t. | To cover with a tilt, or awning. |
| Tilt | v. t. | To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel. |
| Tilt | v. t. | To point or thrust, as a lance. |
| Tilt | v. t. | To point or thrust a weapon at. |
| Tilt | v. t. | To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile. |
| 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. |
| Tilt | v. i. | To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. |
| Tilt | n. | A thrust, as with a lance. |
| Tilt | n. | A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament. |
| Tilt | n. | See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary. |
| Tilt | n. | Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TILT | anagram | LITT, TITL |
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Sentences with TILT (5)
They consisted in about equal proportions of gnarled and flexuous forms, the former being the men, the latter the women, who wore tilt bonnets covered with nankeen, which hung in a curtain upon their shoulders.
Better to cling to the smooth stone he kicked off his sandals of zitidar hide and with his bare feet braced himself against the sickening tilt, at the same time throwing his arms supportingly about the girl.
Then there was a rush, and a _bang, bang, bang!_ and the bullets fairly whizzed around us! We heard them sing out: “Here they are! They’ve broke for the river! After ’em, boys, and turn loose the dogs!” So here they come, full tilt.
Thou! Morfinn's luck! art thou of any use in the tilt-yard?" "Wilt thou try me, lord?" said Ralph, looking somewhat brisker.
The animals took fright, and started off ferociously into the woods, carrying the cart, full tilt, against trees, over stumps, and dashing from side to side, in a manner altogether frightful.
Quotes with TILT (3)
We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatter…
The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.
I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 536 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).