Tilting
[tɪlt]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tilt
(n.) The act of one who tilts; a tilt.
(n.) The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
Checker: Luther
Examples
- I saw by his tilting of the bottle that there was no great quantity left in it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Then he was half-conscious again, aware only of the strange tilting and sliding of the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Therefore the airship stops tilting and comes back to an even flight. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He noted among other things that the tilting of a wing was sufficient to bring about a complete change of direction. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the house, the folding bed, tilting chair, carpet sweeper, and the piano. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He swallowed slowly, tilting up the bottle by little and little, and now he looked at me no more. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Checker: Luther