Definitions
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- adverb With a
lance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Every expended butt in the old cellar did he set a-tilt, and shake with the desperate expectation of collecting enough of the grounds of claret to fill the large pewter measure which he carred in his hand.
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In honor of his love he rode a-tilt at the hindrances that were thrown in his way, and
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Svenson left the maids looking after him in the hallway, their heads a-tilt like a pair of curious cats.
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The blades and tassels of the corn had been stripped away, leaving the ripe ears a-tilt at the top of the stalks, which looked like cranes standing on one leg with their heads slanted in pensive contemplation.
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Then she sat back on her heels, her head a-tilt like a curious bird's, her eyes beaming sentimentally upon the bride.
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The child was standing up now certainly, her wiry little body a-tilt with excitement, a-quiver with it.
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A mangy buffalo head, always the subject of a dull feature story whenever a new reporter was assigned to the beat, hung a-tilt and leering from one wall.
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Choking the range full of coal, wrenching into place a refractory coal-scuttle, she turned the damper in the stove-pipe and set the stove-plates slightly a-tilt.
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He seemed to be on the very summit of the hill; for all the roads were a-tilt.
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No other country in that age, or in the previous one, could show the world such a scene as that gravely enacted before King Juan II and his court, when eighty knights ran a-tilt with each other, and incurred serious loss of limb and permanent injury to their persons, in order that one of them might fulfil
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