tilt

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A canopy or an awning for a boat, wagon, or cart.
• transitive verb To cover (a vehicle) with a canopy or an awning.
• intransitive verb To cause to slope, as by raising one end; incline: synonym: slant.
• intransitive verb To cause to be advantageous to one party rather than another.
• intransitive verb To aim or thrust (a lance) in a joust.
• intransitive verb To charge (an opponent); attack.
• intransitive verb To forge with a tilt hammer.
• intransitive verb To slope; incline.
• intransitive verb To have a preference, favor, or be inclined toward something.
• intransitive verb To be advantageous to one side over another, as in a dispute.
• intransitive verb To fight with lances; joust.
• intransitive verb To engage in a combat or struggle; fight.
• noun The act of tilting or the condition of being tilted.
• noun An inclination from the horizontal or vertical; a slant.
• noun A sloping surface, as of the ground.
• noun A tendency to favor one side in a dispute.
• noun A preference, inclination, or bias.
• noun A medieval sport in which two mounted knights with lances charged together and attempted to unhorse one another.
• noun A thrust or blow with a lance.
• noun A combat, especially a verbal one; a debate.
• noun A tilt hammer.
• idiom (at full tilt) At full speed.
• idiom (on tilt) In a reckless manner, especially playing poker recklessly after experiencing bad or good luck.

from The Century Dictionary.

• In seismology, to tip; incline from the vertical as the result of a movement of the earth's crust.
• noun In seismology, that component of an earth-tremor which throws upright objects out of the vertical plane.
• noun A see-saw; a plank tilting on a narrow support in the middle.
• noun One of the small log-huts of the Labrador hunters.
• To totter; tumble; fall; be overthrown.
• To move unsteadily; toss.
• To heel over; lean forward, back, or to one side; assume a sloping position or direction.
• To charge with the lance; join in a tilting contest, or tilt; make rushing thrusts in or as in combat or the tourney; rush with poised weapon; fight; contend; rush.
• To rush; charge; burst into a place.
• To incline; cause to heel over; give a slope to; raise one end of: as, to tilt a barrel or cask in order to facilitate the emptying of it; to tilt a table.
• To raise or hold poised in preparation for attack.
• To attack with a lance or spear in the exercise called the tilt.
• To hammer or forge with a tilt-hammer or tilt: as, to tilt steel to render it more ductile.
• noun A covering of some thin and flexible stuff, as a tent-awning; especially, in modern use, the cloth cover of a wagon.
• noun A sloping position; inclination forward, backward, or to one side: as, the tilt of a cask; to give a thing a tilt.
• noun A thrust.
• noun An exercise consisting in charging with the spear, sharp or blunted, whether against an antagonist or against a mark, such as the quintain.
• noun plural The dregs of beer or ale; washings of beer-barrels.
• noun A tilt-hammer.
• noun A mechanical device for fishing through an opening in the ice.
• noun A pier, built of brush and stone, on which fishermen unload and dress their fish.