Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which tilts, inclines, or gives a slope to something; a contrivance for tilting a cask, a cannon, or other object.
- noun One who tilts, or joins in a tilting-match.
- noun A forger who uses a tilt-hammer.
- noun In fishing, same as
tilt , 6.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.
- noun One who operates a tilt hammer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
tilts , orjousts . - noun One who
fights . - noun One who operates a
tilt hammer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs
- noun someone who engages in a tilt or joust
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Examples
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My elderly friend is a hardcore progressive and a bit of a windmill tilter, but he seemed pretty sure.
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And he was a lifelong tilter at social conventions.
Lynn Sherr: Women On The News, Then And Now (Hint: There Are More Now) 2008
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It was only the other nuts in the assylum like the minnow minions at (U) sp that paid any attention to that windmill tilter.
Sound Politics: Gossett elected King County Council Chairman 2006
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Spanish: Don Quixote he admits later in the letter to not reading Spanish, and mentions Cervantes by name at that point, but I like the thought of a business card that reads "Don Quixote: author and tilter at windmills" so I am leaving the name he put in his list proper
Even in a little thing gillpolack 2005
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Forthlight the tilter, and brave Master Shooty the great traveller, and wild Half-can that stabbed
Measure for Measure 2004
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The object is for the tilter to shove his opponent out of his canoe, meanwhile seeing to it that the same undesirable fate does not fall to his own lot.
Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller
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O, thats a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose.
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Except for a stammer, he outgrew both defects, and became a skilled tilter and marksman, as well as an accomplished scholar and a diligent student of theology.
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"Why, John, so strong and strange a tilter must fight for the brightness of his lady's eyes or the curve of her eyelash, even as Sir Nigel does for the Lady Loring."
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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"Why, John, so strong and strange a tilter must fight for the brightness of his lady's eyes or the curve of her eyelash, even as Sir Nigel does for the Lady Loring."
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
reesetee commented on the word tilter
Old Texas nickname for the American Avocet.
December 11, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word tilter
A tilt-up or tip-up used in ice-fishing.
January 9, 2013