Tilt

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Tilt

Tilt : சாய், புரள்

Tilt : உழுதல்,சாய்,சாய்,புரள்,புரள்

Tilt definition

Noun.

  1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
  2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
  3. A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
  4. A thrust, as with a lance.
  5. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
  6. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
  7. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

Transitive verb.

  1. To cover with a tilt, or awning.
  2. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
  3. To point or thrust, as a lance.
  4. To point or thrust a weapon at.
  5. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

Intransitive verb.

  1. To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.
  2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.