tilt-up

[tilt-uhp]

adjective

Building 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tilt-up¹

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