atilt

[ uh-tilt ]

adjective, adverb

with a tilt or inclination; tilted: Hold the bottle slightly atilt.
with the lance in hand in tilting.

Origin of atilt

First recorded in 1555–65; a-¹ + tilt¹

Words Nearby 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 Churchill
We 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 Baldwin
They spread themselves about and keep alternate watch, and, lying along the grass, drink deep and set brazen bowls atilt.
The Aeneid of Virgil | Virgil
At any hour of the forenoon you could see the rows of porkmen sitting on chairs atilt on the flags.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 | Various
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

atilt

/ (əˈtɪlt) /

adverb, adjective(postpositive)

in a tilted or inclined position
archaic in or as if in a joust

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