| • | 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. |
