tilt-up

[ tilt-uhp ]

adjectiveBuilding Trades.
  1. of or relating to a method of casting concrete walls on site in a horizontal position or preassembling wooden wall and partition frames, then tilting them up into their final position: tilt-up construction.

Origin of tilt-up

1
First recorded in 1840–50; adj. use of verb phrase tilt up

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