Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fishing, same as
tilt , 6. - noun In ornithology, a fiddler or teetertail. See cut under
Tringoides .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
tip-up .
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Examples
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The old store was built with what is called tilt-up construction in which large concrete slabs are pre-made and then lifted up to form walls.
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The old store was built with what is called tilt-up construction in which large concrete slabs are pre-made and then lifted up to form walls.
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Just last night I was driving near my apartment in an industrial area and saw there was a one-story pre-fab tilt-up industrial building being used as a church.
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From the street, the concrete tilt-up looks more like a big box retail store than a school.
Tom Vander Ark: Carpe Diem: the Best of Leadership and Management Tom Vander Ark 2011
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We are also better at putting struts into tilt-up buildings so that the roofs doesn't fly off.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Seattle Earthquake - February 28, 2001 2001
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A tilt-up storage unit in the best corner of your basement is another method of setting up a "preplanned" family fallout shelter.
In Time of Emergency A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968) United States. Office of Civil Defense
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Another tilt-up ceases to move and falls flat upon the ice.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892
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Over each hole you set a small contrivance called a "tilt-up."
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892
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The new store also uses tilt-up construction, with walls poured off-site and then brought in.
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Either kind of event could shake the ground hard enough to demolish unreinforced brick buildings, concrete tilt-up warehouses and office buildings, older multistory concrete structures without adequate steel rebar - and, in the controversial view of one prominent engineer, downtown towers built to current standards.
The Seattle Times 2011
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