| • | A covering overhead; especially, a tent. | 
											
															| • | The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. | 
											
															| • | A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended
   over the sternsheets of a boat. | 
											
															| • | To cover with a tilt, or awning. | 
											
															| • | To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging
   liquor; as, to tilt a barrel. | 
											
															| • | To point or thrust, as a lance. | 
											
															| • | To point or thrust a weapon at. | 
											
															| • | To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel
   in order to render it more ductile. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. | 
											
															| • | A thrust, as with a lance. | 
											
															| • | A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants
   attacked each other with lances; a tournament. | 
											
															| • | See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary. | 
											
															| • | Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. |