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Definition of Tilter

1. Noun. Someone who engages in a tilt or joust.

2. Noun. A device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs.

Definition of Tilter

1. n. One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.

Definition of Tilter

1. Noun. One who tilts, or jousts. ¹

2. Noun. One who fights. ¹

3. Noun. One who operates a tilt hammer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tilter

1. one that tilts [n -S] - See also: tilts

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tilter

tilt-table test tilt-top table tilt-up tilt-yard tilt-yards tilt angle tilt at windmills tilt barrier tilt barriers tilt rail

tilt table tilt test tiltability tiltable tilted tilter (current term) tilters tilth tilths tilting

tilting board tilting disc valve tilting disc valve prosthesis tiltings tiltmeter tiltmeters tiltorama tiltoramas tiltrotor tiltrotors

Literary usage of Tilter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"tilter. (1) Order. Suffolk. See Fairfax Bulk and Selvedge, 12mo. 1674, p. 75. (2) A sword. A cant term. TILTH. (1) The produce of tilling. ..."

2. Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second by Anthony Hamilton, Charles, Thomas Blount (1846)
"... the world around Who roam'd in quest of love and battle, Of whose high merits fame did tattle, As sturdy tilter, knight renown'd. ..."

3. The American Gardener: A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, # and Laying Out by William Cobbett (1846)
"Each light is lifted up, either at back or front of the frame, as the wind may be, and the wedge, or tilter, as it is called, is put in, to hold the light ..."

4. Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its by Powys-land Club (1889)
"A NIGHT RUSHLIGHT HOLDER In conjunction with these we would next mention a kettle-suspender and tilter (fig. 9, p. 390). It is a curious and ingenious ..."

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