Available Definitions:
1) n. - A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
2) n. - The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
3) n. - A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
4) v. t. - To cover with a tilt, or awning.
5) v. t. - To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
6) v. t. - To point or thrust, as a lance.
7) v. t. - To point or thrust a weapon at.
8) v. t. - To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
9) 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.
10) v. i. - To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
11) n. - A thrust, as with a lance.
12) n. - A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
13) n. - See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
14) n. - Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.