Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A covering overhead; especially, a tent. 2. (n.) The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. 3. (n.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. 4. (v. t.) To cover with a tilt, or awning. 5. (v. t.) To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel. 6. (v. t.) To point or thrust, as a lance. 7. (v. t.) To point or thrust a weapon at. 8. (v. t.) To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile. 9. (v. i.) To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances. 10. (v. i.) To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. 11. (n.) A thrust, as with a lance. 12. (n.) A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament. 13. (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary. 14. (n.) Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

Multi-Version Concordance Tilt (2 Occurrences) Job 38:37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky, (See RSV) Jeremiah 48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will send unto him them that pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces. (See JPS RSV)