These are the meanings of the letters TWILT when you unscramble them.
- Tilt (n.)
A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
- Tilt (n.)
A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- Tilt (n.)
A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
- Tilt (n.)
A thrust, as with a lance.
- Tilt (n.)
Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
- Tilt (n.)
See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
- Tilt (n.)
The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
- Tilt (v. i.)
To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
- Tilt (v. i.)
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.
- Tilt (v. t.)
To cover with a tilt, or awning.
- Tilt (v. t.)
To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
- Tilt (v. t.)
To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
- Tilt (v. t.)
To point or thrust a weapon at.
- Tilt (v. t.)
To point or thrust, as a lance.
- Twit (v. t.)
To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood.
- Wilt ()
2d pers. sing. of Will.
- Wilt (v. i.)
To begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid, as a plant when exposed when exposed to drought, or to great heat in a dry day, or when separated from its root; to droop;. to wither.
- Wilt (v. t.)
Hence, to cause to languish; to depress or destroy the vigor and energy of.
- Wilt (v. t.)
To cause to begin to wither; to make flaccid, as a green plant.