Vocabulary : Tilly-vally to Tilt-up
Tilly-vally : A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as trifling or impertinent.Tilmus : Floccillation.
Tilt : A covering overhead; especially, a tent. ;; The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. ;; A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. ;; To cover with a tilt, or awning. ;; To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel. ;; To point or thrust, as a lance. ;; To point or thrust a weapon at. ;; To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile. ;; 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. ;; To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. ;; A thrust, as with a lance. ;; A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament. ;; See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary. ;; Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
Tilt hammer : A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.
Tilted : of Tilt
