Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which tilts, inclines, or gives a slope to something; a contrivance for tilting a cask, a cannon, or other object.
- n. One who tilts, or joins in a tilting-match.
- n. A forger who uses a tilt-hammer.
- n. In fishing, same as tilt, 6.
Wiktionary
- n. One who tilts, or jousts.
- n. One who fights.
- n. One who operates a tilt hammer.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.
- n. One who operates a tilt hammer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs
- n. someone who engages in a tilt or joust
Examples
“My elderly friend is a hardcore progressive and a bit of a windmill tilter, but he seemed pretty sure.”
“And he was a lifelong tilter at social conventions.”
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“It was only the other nuts in the assylum like the minnow minions at (U) sp that paid any attention to that windmill tilter.”
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“Spanish: Don Quixote he admits later in the letter to not reading Spanish, and mentions Cervantes by name at that point, but I like the thought of a business card that reads "Don Quixote: author and tilter at windmills" so I am leaving the name he put in his list proper”
“Forthlight the tilter, and brave Master Shooty the great traveller, and wild Half-can that stabbed”
“The object is for the tilter to shove his opponent out of his canoe, meanwhile seeing to it that the same undesirable fate does not fall to his own lot.”
“O, thatÂ’s a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose.”
“Except for a stammer, he outgrew both defects, and became a skilled tilter and marksman, as well as an accomplished scholar and a diligent student of theology.”
“Why, John, so strong and strange a tilter must fight for the brightness of his lady's eyes or the curve of her eyelash, even as Sir Nigel does for the Lady Loring.”
“Associated with the early use of tea kettles slung over a fire is the now scarce lazy-back or tilter, at one time common in the West of England and in South Wales.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tilter’.
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Here Fishy Fishy!
A broad list of words and phrases describing schemes and devices, from ancient to modern, that humans have devised to catch or harvest our underwater friends.
hook, line and si..., hook, line, sinker, pole, rod, bobber, artificial bait, natural bait, fly rod, spinner, plug and 76 more...
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The Porn Birds
It's the winter of 2039. Global warming and rapacious development is taking a serious toll on habitat for birds all around the world. In desperation, they turn to new careers in the feather-flick...
goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, wedgie, bonxie, baldpate and 95 more...
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir A tilt-up or tip-up used in ice-fishing. Jan 9, 2013
reesetee Old Texas nickname for the American Avocet. Dec 11, 2007