tilt

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The 2006 Class-A State Champions inched closer to another title tilt, as Parkersburg Catholic used a 3rd quarter rally to motor past Pocahontas County, 47-40.

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  1. transitive verb To cause to slope, as by raising one end; incline: tilt a soup bowl; tilt a chair backward.
  2. transitive verb To aim or thrust (a lance) in a joust.
  3. transitive verb To charge (an opponent); attack.
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  • And if you think the tilt is tilting us closer, no, it isn't. —  Jonathan Drori on what we think we know
  • In the title tilt, Dudziak narrowly lost to top-ranked Jared Rosholt of Oklahoma State 5-4. —  ACC News -- www.theacc.com
  • By the way, the ARC's follower is anti-tilt, which is now de rigeur for —  Defense Review
  • The propaganda machine is running full-tilt, the statements lacking any logical basis are flying and the promises that won't be fulfilled for years to come are being bandied about. —  News24
  • KU women face South Florida in title tilt April 3, 2009
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shrug ·  slant ·  twitch ·  lift ·  jerk ·  smirk ·  rotation ·  wink ·  inclination ·  displacement ·  pose ·  shake

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tilt:   tilted ·  tilting ·  tilts
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  1. Middle English tilten, to cause to fall, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.
  2. Middle English telte, tent, from Old English teld.

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  1. from Middle English tilten, tylten, tulten, from Anglo-Saxon *tyltan (by mutation from tealtian) = OHG *zelten, amble (in deriv. zeltāri. Middle High German G. zelter, an ambler, a horse that ambles), = Icelandic tölta, amble, = Swedish tulta, waddle; from the adjective seen in Anglo-Saxon tealt, unsteady, unstable, tottering. Cf. Dutch tel-ganger for *telt-ganger, an ambler; Middle High German zelt, German dial. zelt, pace, amble; Icelandic *tölt, pace, amble, in hōf-tölt, literally ‘hoof-tilt’; root unknown. Connection with till, ‘draw’ or ‘lift,’ is improbable.
  2. from tilt, v. Cf. English dial. tolt, a blow against a beam or the like.
  3. An altered form of Middle English telt, itself altered, prob. by the influence of the Danish telt = Swedish tält, from teld, from Anglo-Saxon teld, geteld = Middle Dutch telde = Low German telt = Old High German Middle High German zelt (more commonly gizelt). G. zelt = Icelandic tjald = Swedish tält = Danish telt (with final -t, after G. ?), a tent; hence, from Teutonic (Gothic (Moesogothic) ?), Spanish Portuguese toldo, a tent; from the verb shown in Anglo-Saxon *teldan (in comp. beteldan), cover (later Old French taudir, cover, later taudis, a hut). The noun tilt, for teld, may have been influenced in part by association with tilt, as if literally ‘a sloping cover.’
  4. from tilt, n.
  5. Prob. short for tilt-up, 2.
 

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