tiltingn.¹

/ˈtɪltɪŋ/

Etymology: < tilt v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of tilt v.¹ 5; charging on horseback with a lance against an opponent, or a mark; jousting.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun]

bourdis1303

tourneyingc1386

joustinga1400

Barriers1532

champery1602

tilting1610

bohourt1801

lance-game1801

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 250 Having vnhappily slaine his onely sonne while hee trained him at Tilting.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 190 On the right hand as you come in..is a place for Tylting, called Tournelles.

1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 250 The Armour People put on at tilting with Lances.

1893 K. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. Calif. 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 plural. A tilt, a joust. Now rare or Obsolete.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > joust or tournament

tournament?c1225

joust1297

tourney13..

justeningc1400

tournament of warc1400

inturnementc1440

tilt1511

jostle1607

tilting?1617

hippomachia1623

carousel1650

fortuny1676

?1617 W. Alexander Suppl. Sidney's Arcadia sig. *2 At a Tilting in Iberia..I ranne in a Pastoral shew against the Corinthian Knights.

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. i. 465 They haue Tiltings, Runnings with lances against a Post Armed like a man at all peeces.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxxi. 197 At a tilting at Greenwich.

c. transferred and figurative.

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1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 175 A perpetual hostility, a very tilting at his cross.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia II. v. ix. 162 His Brother and the Lieutenant were gone out with a Design of Tilting.

1878 R. L. Stevenson Edinb. (1889) 2 Perpetual tilting against squalls.

a. The action of tilt v.¹ 4; inclination from the vertical or horizontal; sloping, slanting.

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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > tilting or tipping

tilting1658

canting1769

tilt1837

tip1849

tipping1853

1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son (1673) 70 Though a Vessel may yield the more for tilting or stirring.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 655/2 This tilting forwards of the apex gives the heart a pulsation against the ribs.

1850 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. iii. 238 There are no tiltings—no anticlinal and synclinal valleys.

1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1881) 245 Tilting should be cautiously and sparingly used.

†b. concrete (plural) The dregs of the liquor in a cask, collected by tilting it. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > dregs or lees in vessel or cask

drastc1000

drosenc1000

drega1300

lagsa1525

bottom1563

snuff1592

tilta1603

tilting1611

heeltap1753

dunder1774

tops and bottoms1905

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bessieres, the tiltings, dregs, or bottomes of low-running wine, &c.

c. Television and Cinematography. Movement of a camera in a vertical plane.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > camera movement

boom1931

rostrum1935

tilting1938

tilt1959

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > camera movements > [noun]

panning1917

pan1922

panoraming1927

camera movement1929

zooming1934

tilting1938

tilt1959

whip-pan1960

1938 G. 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.

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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > driving or beating tools

braisinga1500

battling1519

maulingc1540

hammering1563

tilting1839

malleting1872

peening1885

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1173 Condensed..by the operation of tilting, under a powerful hammer driven by machinery.

1864 G. L. M. Strauss et al. England's Workshops 88 The blistered steel is prepared for tilting.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (mostly in sense 1.)

tilting armour n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] > tilting armour

tilting armour1819

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment

spear of peacea1400

timberc1400

tilting-staff1602

Saracen1637

tilt-staff1651

tilting armour1819

tilting-helmet1846

tilting-lance1863

tilting spear-

1819 W. Scott Let. 18 Apr. (1933) V. 364 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 W. Scott Chron. Canongate vi A suit of tilting armour of bright steel, inlaid with silver.

tilting bout n.

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1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. ii. 5 We had..a Tilting-bout on the occasion: But are sworn friends now.

tilting encounter n.

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1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. ii. sig. C^v To wage Tilting incounters.

tilting field n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > lists or barriers

listc1386

champany?a1400

rangec1440

jousting-place1480

tilt?1507

tilt-yard1528

barracec1540

barrier1581

careera1586

steccado1600

tilting-yard1606

tilting ground1850

tilting field1859

1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 242 In open battle or the tilting-field.

† tilting furniture n. Obsolete

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1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 34 Tilting Furniture, emblazon'd Shields,..Caparisons and Steeds.

tilting ground n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > lists or barriers

listc1386

champany?a1400

rangec1440

jousting-place1480

tilt?1507

tilt-yard1528

barracec1540

barrier1581

careera1586

steccado1600

tilting-yard1606

tilting ground1850

tilting field1859

1850 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (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.

tilting horse n.

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1623 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 385 He hath..sent for his arms and tilting horses.

tilting match n.

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1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. viii. v. 359 Abélard became the most powerful combatant in the intellectual tilting matches of the schools.

tilting sport n.

C2.

tilting bucket conveyor n. 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.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > conveyor > types of

rolling road1905

conveyor belt1906

tilting bucket conveyor1911

slat conveyor1916

carousel1961

1911 Encycl. Brit. VII. 56 The gravity or tilting bucket conveyor can be used as a combined elevator and conveyor.

tilting coffer n. a chest carved with representations of tournaments.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > chest > carved or ornamental

Nonesuch chest1905

tilting coffer1911

1911 Encycl. Brit. VI. 107 There is a whole class of chests known as ‘tilting coffers’.

tilting-fillet n. 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.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > board to raise slates at eaves

eaves-board1399

eaves-lath1422

tilting-fillet1823

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 399 The slater..nails down these tilting fillets.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §83 Tilting fillets are used to give a slight inclination to the verge or border-slates, where they butt against brick-work.

tilting gauntlet n. 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 n. = tilting-helmet n.

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1880 Academy 20 Nov. 371/3 A very fine tilting helm with the wooden crest of Sir John Gostwick, Master of the Horse to Henry VIII.

tilting-helmet n. a large heavy helmet worn over the ordinary one in tilting, completely covering the head and face, with slits for breathing and vision.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > other types of helmet

kettle-hat1380

salletc1440

knapscall1498

armet1507

bonnet?a1513

morion1547

burgonet1570

heaume1572

Bourguignonne1578

castle1587

casquet1611

cabasset1622

casquetel1796

knapscapa1802

comb-cap1825

tilting-helmet1846

pickelhaube1853

Waterloo helmet1853

bell-shape1869

schapska1894

pudding basin1925

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment

spear of peacea1400

timberc1400

tilting-staff1602

Saracen1637

tilt-staff1651

tilting armour1819

tilting-helmet1846

tilting-lance1863

tilting spear-

1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. 119 [The figure] represents [Sir Geoffrey Loutterell]..receiving from the ladies of his family his tilting-helmet, shield, and pavon.

tilting-lance n. a form of lance used in tilting, often ornamental, with a large guard or vamplate, and a blunt point or a coronal.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment

spear of peacea1400

timberc1400

tilting-staff1602

Saracen1637

tilt-staff1651

tilting armour1819

tilting-helmet1846

tilting-lance1863

tilting spear-

1863 W. Thornbury True as Steel III. 318 This iron hand of mine can handle a tilting lance better than a pen.

tilting-mill n. = tilt-mill n. at tilt n.² Compounds 2.

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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 61 These are..the foundations of kindred works, such as..tilting-mills.

tilting-shield n. a shield used in tilting, so constructed as to cause the opponent's lance to glance off sideways.

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Categories »

tilting spear n. = tilting-lance n.

tilting-staff n. a staff used instead of a lance in tilting.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment

spear of peacea1400

timberc1400

tilting-staff1602

Saracen1637

tilt-staff1651

tilting armour1819

tilting-helmet1846

tilting-lance1863

tilting spear-

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. B4 He is made like a tilting staffe.

tilting-target n. = tilting-shield n.

tilting-yard n. = tilt-yard n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > lists or barriers

listc1386

champany?a1400

rangec1440

jousting-place1480

tilt?1507

tilt-yard1528

barracec1540

barrier1581

careera1586

steccado1600

tilting-yard1606

tilting ground1850

tilting field1859

1606 W. Drummond Let. 18 July in Wks. (1711) 232 His Lodging..was in the House of the Tilting Yard, where the King bore him Company at Supper.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 10 The same Court serves for a Tilting-yard.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

tiltingadj.

Etymology: < tilt v.¹ + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtilting.

That tilts, in various senses.

1. Moving unsteadily, rising and falling, swaying up and down. (See also 3.)

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [adjective]

waveringc1540

tilting1606

titubating1653

volatile1654

tittering1661

drunken1786

wavery1820

vacillating1822

joggly1828

yawing1835

teetering1845

wambly1857

pecky1864

drunk1881

teetery1900

wambling1908

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 5 Seas foaming Course, whose ever-Tilting Tide (Ebbing or flowing) is Confin'd to Season.

a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) 239 Her tilting tides near unto Appledore Have clean swept Hubba's trophy off the shore.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. vi. 40 He approached..with a slow and tilting step.

2. Jousting: encountering in, or as in, a tilt.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [adjective]

tilting1679

tilted1776

1679 J. Crowne Ambitious Statesman iii. 33 I have seen..their tilting Lipps meet close, and grapple.

3. Causing something to tilt or slant; also, that is or can be tilted.

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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping > tilted or tilting

hielded?1623

canted1649

tilting1807

canting1877

tilted1892

tipped1907

1807 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 190 A tilting motion, given to the lens..will move the two sets of rings from side to side.

1907 Daily Chron. 14 May 6/3 The cost of tilting standards and electroliers was shown to be excessive.

Draft additions 1993

b. tilting rotor Aeronautics, a rotor which may be tilted to function as a propeller during cruising flight; cf. tilt rotor n. at tilt n.² Additions.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > parts of rotary wing aircraft > rotor

ascensional screw1901

lifting screw1902

rotor1915

windmill1931

tilting rotor1940

tilt rotor1961

1940 British 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.

1955 Flight 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	tilting
释义	tiltingn.¹ /ˈtɪltɪŋ/ Etymology: < tilt v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of tilt v.¹ 5; charging on horseback with a lance against an opponent, or a mark; jousting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] bourdis1303 tourneyingc1386 joustinga1400 Barriers1532 champery1602 tilting1610 bohourt1801 lance-game1801 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 250 Having vnhappily slaine his onely sonne while hee trained him at Tilting. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 190 On the right hand as you come in..is a place for Tylting, called Tournelles. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 250 The Armour People put on at tilting with Lances. 1893 K. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. Calif. 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 plural. A tilt, a joust. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > joust or tournament tournament?c1225 joust1297 tourney13.. justeningc1400 tournament of warc1400 inturnementc1440 tilt1511 jostle1607 tilting?1617 hippomachia1623 carousel1650 fortuny1676 ?1617 W. Alexander Suppl. Sidney's Arcadia sig. 2 At a Tilting in Iberia..I ranne in a Pastoral shew against the Corinthian Knights. a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe* (1903) v. i. 465 They haue Tiltings, Runnings with lances against a Post Armed like a man at all peeces. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxxi. 197 At a tilting at Greenwich. c. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 175 A perpetual hostility, a very tilting at his cross. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia II. v. ix. 162 His Brother and the Lieutenant were gone out with a Design of Tilting. 1878 R. L. Stevenson Edinb. (1889) 2 Perpetual tilting against squalls. 2. a. The action of tilt v.¹ 4; inclination from the vertical or horizontal; sloping, slanting. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > tilting or tipping tilting1658 canting1769 tilt1837 tip1849 tipping1853 1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son (1673) 70 Though a Vessel may yield the more for tilting or stirring. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 655/2 This tilting forwards of the apex gives the heart a pulsation against the ribs. 1850 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. iii. 238 There are no tiltings—no anticlinal and synclinal valleys. 1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1881) 245 Tilting should be cautiously and sparingly used. †b. concrete (plural) The dregs of the liquor in a cask, collected by tilting it. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > dregs or lees in vessel or cask drastc1000 drosenc1000 drega1300 lagsa1525 bottom1563 snuff1592 tilta1603 tilting1611 heeltap1753 dunder1774 tops and bottoms1905 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bessieres, the tiltings, dregs, or bottomes of low-running wine, &c. c. Television and Cinematography. Movement of a camera in a vertical plane. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > camera movement boom1931 rostrum1935 tilting1938 tilt1959 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > camera movements > [noun] panning1917 pan1922 panoraming1927 camera movement1929 zooming1934 tilting1938 tilt1959 whip-pan1960 1938 G. 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > driving or beating tools braisinga1500 battling1519 maulingc1540 hammering1563 tilting1839 malleting1872 peening1885 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1173 Condensed..by the operation of tilting, under a powerful hammer driven by machinery. 1864 G. L. M. Strauss et al. England's Workshops 88 The blistered steel is prepared for tilting. Compounds C1. General attributive (mostly in sense 1.) tilting armour n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] > tilting armour tilting armour1819 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment spear of peacea1400 timberc1400 tilting-staff1602 Saracen1637 tilt-staff1651 tilting armour1819 tilting-helmet1846 tilting-lance1863 tilting spear- 1819 W. Scott Let. 18 Apr. (1933) V. 364 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 W. Scott Chron. Canongate vi A suit of tilting armour of bright steel, inlaid with silver. tilting bout n. ΚΠ 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. ii. 5 We had..a Tilting-bout on the occasion: But are sworn friends now. tilting encounter n. ΚΠ 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. ii. sig. C^v To wage Tilting incounters. tilting field n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > lists or barriers listc1386 champany?a1400 rangec1440 jousting-place1480 tilt?1507 tilt-yard1528 barracec1540 barrier1581 careera1586 steccado1600 tilting-yard1606 tilting ground1850 tilting field1859 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 242 In open battle or the tilting-field. † tilting furniture n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 34 Tilting Furniture, emblazon'd Shields,..Caparisons and Steeds. View more context for this quotation tilting ground n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > lists or barriers listc1386 champany?a1400 rangec1440 jousting-place1480 tilt?1507 tilt-yard1528 barracec1540 barrier1581 careera1586 steccado1600 tilting-yard1606 tilting ground1850 tilting field1859 1850 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (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. tilting horse n. ΚΠ 1623 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 385 He hath..sent for his arms and tilting horses. tilting match n. ΚΠ 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. viii. v. 359 Abélard became the most powerful combatant in the intellectual tilting matches of the schools. tilting sport n. C2. tilting bucket conveyor n. 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > conveyor > types of rolling road1905 conveyor belt1906 tilting bucket conveyor1911 slat conveyor1916 carousel1961 1911 Encycl. Brit. VII. 56 The gravity or tilting bucket conveyor can be used as a combined elevator and conveyor. tilting coffer n. a chest carved with representations of tournaments. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > chest > carved or ornamental Nonesuch chest1905 tilting coffer1911 1911 Encycl. Brit. VI. 107 There is a whole class of chests known as ‘tilting coffers’. tilting-fillet n. 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. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > board to raise slates at eaves eaves-board1399 eaves-lath1422 tilting-fillet1823 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 399 The slater..nails down these tilting fillets. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §83 Tilting fillets are used to give a slight inclination to the verge or border-slates, where they butt against brick-work. tilting gauntlet n. 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 n. = tilting-helmet n. ΚΠ 1880 Academy 20 Nov. 371/3 A very fine tilting helm with the wooden crest of Sir John Gostwick, Master of the Horse to Henry VIII. tilting-helmet n. a large heavy helmet worn over the ordinary one in tilting, completely covering the head and face, with slits for breathing and vision. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > other types of helmet kettle-hat1380 salletc1440 knapscall1498 armet1507 bonnet?a1513 morion1547 burgonet1570 heaume1572 Bourguignonne1578 castle1587 casquet1611 cabasset1622 casquetel1796 knapscapa1802 comb-cap1825 tilting-helmet1846 pickelhaube1853 Waterloo helmet1853 bell-shape1869 schapska1894 pudding basin1925 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment spear of peacea1400 timberc1400 tilting-staff1602 Saracen1637 tilt-staff1651 tilting armour1819 tilting-helmet1846 tilting-lance1863 tilting spear- 1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. 119 [The figure] represents [Sir Geoffrey Loutterell]..receiving from the ladies of his family his tilting-helmet, shield, and pavon. tilting-lance n. a form of lance used in tilting, often ornamental, with a large guard or vamplate, and a blunt point or a coronal. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment spear of peacea1400 timberc1400 tilting-staff1602 Saracen1637 tilt-staff1651 tilting armour1819 tilting-helmet1846 tilting-lance1863 tilting spear- 1863 W. Thornbury True as Steel III. 318 This iron hand of mine can handle a tilting lance better than a pen. tilting-mill n. = tilt-mill n. at tilt n.² Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 61 These are..the foundations of kindred works, such as..tilting-mills. tilting-shield n. a shield used in tilting, so constructed as to cause the opponent's lance to glance off sideways. Thesaurus » Categories » tilting spear n. = tilting-lance n. tilting-staff n. a staff used instead of a lance in tilting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment spear of peacea1400 timberc1400 tilting-staff1602 Saracen1637 tilt-staff1651 tilting armour1819 tilting-helmet1846 tilting-lance1863 tilting spear- 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. B4 He is made like a tilting staffe. tilting-target n. = tilting-shield n. tilting-yard n. = tilt-yard n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > lists or barriers listc1386 champany?a1400 rangec1440 jousting-place1480 tilt?1507 tilt-yard1528 barracec1540 barrier1581 careera1586 steccado1600 tilting-yard1606 tilting ground1850 tilting field1859 1606 W. Drummond Let. 18 July in Wks. (1711) 232 His Lodging..was in the House of the Tilting Yard, where the King bore him Company at Supper. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 10 The same Court serves for a Tilting-yard. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). tiltingn.² Etymology: < tilt v.² or tilt n.¹ + -ing suffix¹: compare carpeting.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtilting. The action of covering with a tilt or awning; concrete a tilt, or material for tilts. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > against weather or storms > use of tilting1499 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > against weather or storms > roof-like covering of cloth tiltc1440 penthouse1517 entiltment1599 shamiana1609 tilt-cloth1611 awning1624 tentorium1661 tilting1720 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > other carde1410 bench1552 screen cloth1603 napkining1604 serveting1611 morellaa1666 beaufort1712 sheveret1716 press cloth1745 bandaging1819 wicking1847 tilting1862 sailcloth1873 tenting1887 dustering1910 Milium1950 underwire1973 1499 Promptorium Parvulorum (Pynson) sig. qvi/2 Teltinge, gaudacio. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 119 Our Matts..are our Beds to lay under us, and our Tilting to cover us. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4014 Witney blankets, tiltings, yarns. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). tiltingadj. Etymology: < tilt v.¹ + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtilting. That tilts, in various senses. 1. Moving unsteadily, rising and falling, swaying up and down. (See also 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [adjective] waveringc1540 tilting1606 titubating1653 volatile1654 tittering1661 drunken1786 wavery1820 vacillating1822 joggly1828 yawing1835 teetering1845 wambly1857 pecky1864 drunk1881 teetery1900 wambling1908 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 5 Seas foaming Course, whose ever-Tilting Tide (Ebbing or flowing) is Confin'd to Season. a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) 239 Her tilting tides near unto Appledore Have clean swept Hubba's trophy off the shore. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. vi. 40 He approached..with a slow and tilting step. 2. Jousting: encountering in, or as in, a tilt. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [adjective] tilting1679 tilted1776 1679 J. Crowne Ambitious Statesman iii. 33 I have seen..their tilting Lipps meet close, and grapple. 3. Causing something to tilt or slant; also, that is or can be tilted. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping > tilted or tilting hielded?1623 canted1649 tilting1807 canting1877 tilted1892 tipped1907 1807 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 190 A tilting motion, given to the lens..will move the two sets of rings from side to side. 1907 Daily Chron. 14 May 6/3 The cost of tilting standards and electroliers was shown to be excessive. Draft additions 1993 b. tilting rotor Aeronautics, a rotor which may be tilted to function as a propeller during cruising flight; cf. tilt rotor n. at tilt n.² Additions. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > parts of rotary wing aircraft > rotor ascensional screw1901 lifting screw1902 rotor1915 windmill1931 tilting rotor1940 tilt rotor1961 1940 British 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. 1955 Flight 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. 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