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  • noun Plural form of tilter.

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Examples

  • Others, like me, could best be described as tilters, leaners or shaders.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Tom Bradley 2010

  • I mean, besides windmill tilters -- or is that would-be spoilers?

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • Whore-masters would serve; for none are judges at tilting, but those that have been old tilters.

    The White Devil 2007

  • Whore-masters would serve; for none are judges at tilting, but those that have been old tilters.

    The White Devil 2007

  • Strangely that would be the ideal function of the old sacred texts which religion and windmill tilters constantly manage to twist into a form of madness.

    What We're up Against - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • "Ivanhoe," except that the tilters use canoes instead of horses and blunt sticks in place of spears and lances.

    Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller

  • We are curious to see upon what ground these clever tilters are going to measure each other.

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • Their faults were the faults of lusty, red-blooded youth, and their virtues the open-handed generosity, the ready sympathy of those uncertain tilters at life who ride or fall in the tourney of a new country.

    Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

  • Comte, very much where it did when Socrates ran amuck among the casuistical Quixotes of his day, and left the philosophic tilters of

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

  • There was a great jousting at Crecy a little later, and Gaston went there to deal with certain knights and princes among the tilters, and left the shop in Dickon's charge.

    Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910

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