Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A boat having a tilt or a wning.
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Examples
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That very afternoon he went to Gravesend in the tilt-boat, from whence he took place in the tide-coach for Rochester; next morning got on board the
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On the eve of the fatal thirtieth of January they had been taken captives in a tilt-boat on the
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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That very afternoon he went to Gravesend in the tilt-boat, from whence he took place in the tide-coach for
The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1746
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Moft of the lower people of Eaft-Kent, when they go for London, go no farther by land than this town: then for 9 d. in the tilt-boat, or 1 s. in a fmall boat or wherry, are carried to London by water.
A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... 1778
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