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▪ I. tilting, vbl. n.1|ˈtɪltɪŋ|
[f. tilt v.1 + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of tilt v.1 in sense 5; charging on horseback with a lance against an opponent, or a mark; justing.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 250 Having unhappily slaine his onely sonne while he trained him at Tilting. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 190 On the right hand as you come in..is a place for Tylting, called Tournelles. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 250 The Armour People put on at tilting with Lances. 1893K. A. Sanborn Truthf. Woman in S. California 172 The tournament is exciting, where skilful riders try tilting at rings, trying to take as many rings as possible on lance while galloping by.
b. With a and pl. A tilt, a just. Now rare or Obs.
c1618Moryson Itin. iv. v. i. (1903) 465 They haue Tiltings, Runnings with lances against a Post Armed like a man at all peeces. 1621Sir W. Alexander in Sidney's Arcadia iii. (1629) 337 At a Tilting in Iberia..I ranne in a Pastorall shew against the Corinthian Knights. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxxi. 197 At a tilting at Greenwich.
c. transf. and fig.
1668Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 175 A perpetual hostility, a very tilting at his cross. 1752Fielding Amelia v. ix, His Brother and the Lieutenant were gone out with a Design of Tilting. 1878Stevenson Edinburgh (1889) 2 Perpetual tilting against squalls.
2. a. The action of tilt v.1 in sense 4; inclination from the vertical or horizontal; sloping, slanting.
1658Osborn Adv. Son (1673) 70 Though a Vessel may yield the more for tilting or stirring. 1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 655/2 This tilting forwards of the apex gives the heart a pulsation against the ribs. 1850Dana Geol. iii. 238 There are no tiltings—no anticlinal and synclinal valleys. 1878Abney Photogr. (1881) 245 Tilting should be cautiously and sparingly used.
†b. concr. (pl.) The dregs of the liquor in a cask, collected by tilting it. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Bessieres, the tiltings, dregs, or bottomes of low-running wine, &c.
c. Television and Cinematogr. Movement of a camera in a vertical plane.
1938G. H. Sewell Amateur Film-Making ix. 80 Movement [of the camera] in the up and down direction is known as ‘tilting’.
3. Working with a tilt-hammer.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 1173 Condensed..by the operation of tilting, under a powerful hammer driven by machinery. 1864Strauss, etc. Engl. Workshops 88 The blistered steel is prepared for tilting.
4. attrib. and Comb. (mostly in sense 1), as tilting armour, tilting bout, tilting encounter, tilting field, † tilting furniture, tilting ground, tilting horse, tilting match, tilting sport; tilting bucket conveyor, a means of transporting coal or other substances, constructed of two endless chains between which on trunnions are slung buckets, the contents of which are tilted or tipped at any given spot by a tippling device; tilting coffer, a chest carved with representations of tournaments; tilting-fillet, a wedge-shaped slip of wood placed under the front edge of the first or lowest course of slates in a roof, to give to that course the same inclination as in the courses above; tilting gauntlet, a form of gauntlet used in tilting, having a hook with which it could be fastened so as to secure the lance in the grasp of the hand; tilting-helm, -helmet, a large heavy helmet worn over the ordinary one in tilting, completely covering the head and face, with slits for breathing and vision; tilting-lance, a form of lance used in tilting, often ornamental, with a large guard or vamplate, and a blunt point or a coronal; tilting-mill = tilt-mill (see tilt n.2 10); tilting-shield, a shield used in tilting, so constructed as to cause the opponent's lance to glance off sideways; tilting spear = tilting-lance; tilting-staff, a staff used instead of a lance in tilting; tilting-target = tilting-shield; tilting-yard = tilt-yard.
1819Scott Let. to D. Terry 18 Apr., in Lockhart, I see Mr. Bullock.. advertises his museum for sale. I wonder if a good set of real *tilting armour could be got cheap there. 1827― Chron. Canongate vi, A suit of tilting armour of bright steel, inlaid with silver.
1754Richardson Grandison (1810) I. ii. 5 We had..a *tilting-bout..but are sworn friends now.
1911Encycl. Brit. VII. 56 The gravity or *tilting bucket conveyor can be used as a combined elevator and conveyor.
Ibid. VI. 107 There is a whole class of chests known as ‘*tilting coffers’.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie i. ii, To wage *Tilting incounters.
1859Tennyson Guinevere 329 In open battle or the *tilting-field.
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 399 The slater..nails down these *tilting fillets. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §83 Tilting fillets are used to give a slight inclination to the verge or border-slates, where they butt against brick-work.
1667Milton P.L. ix. 34 *Tilting Furniture, emblazon'd Shields,..Caparisons and Steeds.
1850Marsden Early Purit. (1853) 77 Cartwright, if dissatisfied, should have..challenged other hearers than his pupils, and upon some other *tilting-ground than the fenced enclosures of a university.
1880Academy 20 Nov. 371/3 A very fine *tilting helm with the wooden crest of Sir John Gostwick, Master of the Horse to Henry VIII.
1846Fairholt Costume in Eng. 119 [The figure] represents [Sir Geoffrey Loutterell]..receiving from the ladies of his family his *tilting-helmet, shield, and pavon.
1623in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) II. 385 He hath..sent for his arms and *tilting horses.
1863Thornbury True as Steel III. 318 This iron hand of mine can handle a *tilting lance better than a pen.
1854Milman Lat. Chr. viii. v. III. 359 Abélard became the most powerful combatant in the intellectual *tilting matches of the schools.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 61 These are..the foundations of kindred works, such as..*tilting-mills.
1602Marston Ant. & Mel. i. Wks. 1856 I. 13 He is made like a *tilting staffe.
1606Drummond of Hawthornden Let. fr. Greenwich Wks. (1711) 232 His lodging..was in the house of the *tilting yard, where the king bore him company at supper. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 10 The same Court serves for a Tilting-yard.
▪ II. ˈtilting, vbl. n.2
[f. tilt v.2 or n.1 + -ing1: cf. carpeting.]
The action of covering with a tilt or awning; concr. a tilt, or material for tilts.
1499Promp. Parv. 488/1 (Pynson) Teltinge, gaudacio. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton vi, Our mats..are our beds to lay under us, and our tilting to cover us. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. ii. No. 4014 Witney blankets, tiltings, yarns.
▪ III. ˈtilting, ppl. a.
[f. tilt v.1 + -ing2.]
That tilts, in various senses.
1. Moving unsteadily, rising and falling, swaying up and down. (See also 3.)
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. i. 123 Sea's foaming Course, whose ever-Tilting Tide (Ebbing or flowing) is confin'd to Season. c1630in Risdon Surv. Devon §225 (1810) 239 Her tilting tides near unto Appledore Have clean swept Hubba's trophy off the shore. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) I. vi. 40 He approached..with a slow and tilting step.
2. Justing: encountering in, or as in, a tilt.
1679Crowne Ambitious Statesm. iii, I have seen..their tilting lips meet close, and grapple.
3. Causing something to tilt or slant; also, that is or can be tilted.
1807Herschel in Phil. Trans. XCVII. 190 A tilting motion, given to the lens..will move the two sets of rings from side to side. 1907Daily Chron. 14 May 6/3 The cost of tilting standards and electroliers was shown to be excessive.
Add:[3.] b. tilting rotor Aeronaut., a rotor which may be tilted to function as a propeller during cruising flight; cf. tilt rotor s.v. tilt n.2 10.
1940British Stand. Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms 66 Tilting rotor, a rotor of which the head can be tilted in flight relative to its supporting structure to control or trim the aerodyne. 1955Flight 4 Mar. 270/2 It is now learned that the power unit of this tilting-rotor convertiplane is a Pratt and Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior. |