单词 | tilter |
释义 | tiltern.1 1. a. One who tilts or jousts; a combatant in a tilt; also figurative. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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 dialect. Proper condition; order: perhaps originally of cultivated land, and afterwards of things generally. ΘΚΠ 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. dialect. intransitive. To sway up and down. ΘΚΠ 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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