tilt | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, sway |
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(noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, leaning, list |
(noun) a slight but noticeable partiality | - |
(noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation |
(noun) a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances | Synonyms: joust |
(verb) charge with a tilt | - |
(verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, lean, slant, tip |
(verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, slant |
(verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, shift, wobble |
tilted | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, canted, leaning, tipped |
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tilter | (noun) a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs | - |
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(noun) someone who engages in a tilt or joust | - |
tilth | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land |
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(noun) the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth | - |
tiltyard | (noun) (formerly) an enclosed field for tilting contests | - |
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