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单词 tilter
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tiltern.1

Brit. /ˈtɪltə/, U.S. /ˈtɪltər/
Etymology: < tilt v.1 + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who tilts or jousts; a combatant in a tilt; also figurative.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > jouster or tilter
tourneyer1303
jousterc1330
assailant1586
jostler1599
tilter1611
tournamenteer1737
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Fólla..a course in the field where many horsemen or tilters, after they haue runne single one to one, they runne pell mell altogether.
1612 J. Webster White Divel iii. i None are judges at tilting, but those that have bene old tilters.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas II. v. i. 124 I was shocked with the inequality of the combat, and, as I am naturally a tilter, flew to the assistance of the old man.
1828 W. Scott Tales of Grandfather (ed. 2) 1st Ser. II. xi. 216 The best tilter with the spear, received from the King a lance with a head of pure gold.
1898 J. Hollingshead Gaiety Chron. i. 37 I was always a tilter at windmills.
b. A rapier or sword. slang. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun]
sword971
brandOE
edgeOE
ironOE
brandelletc1325
garec1330
toolc1386
brank1480
tranchefera1533
flatchet1577
Morglay1582
smiter1591
brandiron1596
Toledo1601
machaira1614
spit-frog1615
toasting-irona1616
spit1642
bilbo1676
porker1688
tilter1688
degen1699
spurtlec1700
toaster1751
toasting-fork1807
slasher1815
cheese-cutter1824
khanda1825
cheese-toaster1858
windlestraw1895
1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia ii. i. 31 Let me see your Porker: Here's a Porker; here's a Tilter.
1691 Islington-Wells 7 A young spruce City Fop,..With a Long-Wig and Tilter on.
1713 R. Steele Guardian No. 143. ⁋5 To..reduce their tilters to a more reputable, as well as a more portable size.
2. One who or that which tilts, inclines, or slopes (something) up or down; spec. (a) an apparatus for tilting a cask so as to empty it without stirring up the dregs; (b) a workman who tilts or empties out the coal into trucks at the pit's mouth.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > utensils for
wine basketc950
faucet?a1400
claretc1440
tilter1630
simpulum1672
worm1681
valentia1688
screw1697
bottle screw1699
corkscrew1720
cyathus1768
toddy ladle1807
valinch1823
champagne fountain1835
wine-wagon1848
beer-tray1862
beer-pull1864
oenochoe1871
bottle opener1872
kovsh1884
toddy-lifter1894
set-up1930
beer-mat1939
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who works with trams, tubs, etc.
coal putter1708
foal1770
onsetter1789
putter1812
headsman1813
trapper1815
thruster1825
trammer1839
train boy1852
tram1856
hanger-on1858
tipper1861
hooker-on?1881
jiggerer?1881
hitcher1890
tub-loader1891
haulier1892
tilter1892
unhooker1892
flatter1894
jagger1900
thrutcher1901
tram-boy1904
filler1921
1630 Maldon (Essex) Documents (Bundle 217, No. 22) In the butterye, i beer stalle and i tilter, 8d.
1892 J. Lumsden Sheep-head & Trotters 213 The neatest tilter and emptier of a brandy and water glass I ever saw.
1896 Daily News 1 May 2/1 The only persons in the vicinity of the pit mouth were the banksmen, blacksmiths, and tilters.
3. One who works with a tilt-hammer.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > forger or smith > type of forger or smith
jobsmith1828
tilter1829
oliverman?1881
1829 E. Elliott Village Patriarch i. 3 Loud thumps the forge; bright burns the cottage fire, From which the tilter's lad is loth to go.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 242 During the operation of hammering,..the tilter sits on a seat reaching nearly to the ground.
4. A see-saw. U.S.
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1727 J. Comer Diary (1923) 17 As I was playing a childish play on a tilter with one Power Merit..I fell.
5. A swaying motion. U.S.
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1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. 173 A lawyer..with..a tilter in his walk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tiltern.2

Etymology: probably rustic pronunciation of tilture n.: compare pictur, picter for picture.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtilter.
dialect.
Proper condition; order: perhaps originally of cultivated land, and afterwards of things generally.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > good or bad condition or order
point?c1225
plighta1375
waya1400
ply1443
ploy1477
abyss1548
order1569
kilter1582
trim1628
tilter1674
fettle?1748
kidney1763
fix1816
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 75 The single shove or heave of the spring..puts the Watch thus fadg'd together and in tilter into motions round, right on,..forwards, backwards, upwards, downwards, and otherwayes.
a1880 Kentish Dial. This thurruck is out o' tilter all the way along.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. (at cited word) He's left that farm purty much out o' tilter, I can tell ye.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

tilterv.

Etymology: apparently frequentative of tilt v.1 3; compare Old English tealtrian to be unsteady, shake, totter, extended form of tealtian (tilt v.1): see -er suffix5. Cf. OE Crist I 371 Ara nu onbehtum ond usse yrm þa geþenc, hu we tealtrigað tydran mode, hwearfiað heanlice.a1000 Haupt's Glosses 529 Tealtrian, vacillare, titubare.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtilter.
dialect.
intransitive. To sway up and down.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > see-saw
see-saw1712
tittera1825
titter-tottera1825
tilter1825
teeter1843
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 271 The..pistol,..it was tiltering too, as if it were just ready to go off, at every jump.
1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xiv. 105 A bobolink clung tiltering to the breezy tip of a white birch.
1895 K. D. Wiggin Village Watch-tower 36 Butterflies..perch on the..stalks and tilter up and down in the sunshine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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