| 单词 | to run a tilt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run a tilt b. So to run a tilt (see also a-tilt adv. 2, a prep.1); also figurative. Also rarely to run tilt. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > joust or tilt [verb (intransitive)] playeOE bourdisec1320 joustc1330 copec1350 tourney1390 coup?a1400 joustenc1400 to joust of warc1400 to run togetherc1410 bourda1500 to fight at barriers1532 runa1533 to run at (the) tilt1548 jostle1580 tilt1595 to break a treea1600 to run (or ride) a-tilt1608 to run tilt1831 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. v. 11 Breake a Launce, and runne a-Tilt at Death. View more context for this quotation 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 145 If you make two such bodies..to run a tilt upon such a line of odd leastings. 1765 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) I. iv. 99 The next..exhibits two knights running a tilt on the foreground. 1831 T. Carlyle Let. 15 Aug. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1976) V. 330 With her..I was provoked.., so pert was she, to run tilt, and I fear transfix her. 1871 D. M. Mulock Fair France i. 3 Like Don Quixote with his windmill..it is running a tilt against perfectly imaginary foes. 1891 Temple Bar Sept. 102 He runs tilt against the hypocrisies of social life. < as lemmas |
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