Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Tiltmeter. Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: A tiltmeter is an instrument designed to measure very small changes from the vertical level, either on the ground or in structures. A similar term, in less common usage, is the inclinometer.
1 1877: Custer, who had been buried there, was reinterred in West Point Cemetery.  7 December 1886: The site was proclaimed National Cemetery of Custer's Battlefield Reservation to include burials of other campaigns and wars. The name has been shortened to Custer National Cemetery.
WEST POINT, N.Y. â It's no riddle that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant is the man buried in Grant's Tomb. But there is a mystery behind who is buried in the grave of the man Grant sent to fight the Indians. It may not be Gen. George Armstrong Custer, who died in 1876 along with his 267 soldiers at the hands of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at the Little Bighorn in Montana.