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cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth. -- Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon.

A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.

A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.

Same as Tip-up.

A yard or place for tilting. "The tilt-yard of Templestowe." Sir W. Scott.

One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights. Let me alone to match your tilter. Glanville.

The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth. The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. De Quincey.

The act of one who tilts; a tilt.

In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. "To run atilt at men." Hudibras.

To tilt over; to overturn.

Subtlety. [Obs.] Chaucer.

mes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm. Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. Landor.

See Stilt, n., 3.

Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation. Stilted arch (Arch.), an arch in which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space between being occupied by a vertical member, molded or ornamented, as a continuation of the archivolt, intrados, etc.…

To raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt.

essed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat.

Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.

The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.

cklessly and indiscriminately. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope.

A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.