a covering overhead; especially, a tent.-the cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.-a cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.-to cover with a tilt, or awning.-to incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.-to point or thrust, as a lance.-to point or thrust a weapon at.-to hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.-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.-to lean; to fall partly over; to tip.-a thrust, as with a lance.-a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.-see tilt hammer, in the vocabulary.-inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.