atilt
Origin of atilt
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How to use atilt in a sentence
In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun.
A Traveller in War-Time | Winston ChurchillWe will swear a truce of God, neither shall run atilt at the other's convictions until he is invited to do so.
Grey Town | Gerald BaldwinThey spread themselves about and keep alternate watch, and, lying along the grass, drink deep and set brazen bowls atilt.
The Aeneid of Virgil | VirgilAt any hour of the forenoon you could see the rows of porkmen sitting on chairs atilt on the flags.
But he had to stop to sing atilt of an elder stem before he could go on to tell his spouse about them.
A-Birding on a Bronco | Florence A. Merriam
British Dictionary definitions for atilt
/ (əˈtɪlt) /
in a tilted or inclined position
archaic in or as if in a joust
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