tilt
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[edit] English
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- Rhymes: -ɪlt
[edit] Etymology 1
Middle English tilte. Cognate with Icelandic tölt (“‘an ambling place’”).
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to tilt (third-person singular simple present tilts, present participle tilting, simple past and past participle tilted)
- to slope or incline (something); to slant
- (jousting) to charge (at someone) with a lance
- to forge (something) with a tilt hammer
- (poker) to play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck)
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tilt (plural tilts)
- a slope or inclination (uncountable)
- a joust (countable)
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[edit] Etymology 2
Old English teld, either from Danish telt [1]( < Middle Low German telt), or directly from Middle Low German[2]. Cognates include German Zelt (“‘tent’”), Old Norse tjald (“‘tent’”) ( > archaic Danish tjæld (“‘tent’”)).
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tilt (plural tilts)
- a canvas covering for carts etc.
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[edit] Hungarian
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- IPA: /ˈtilt/
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