tilt-up
[tilt-uhp]
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adjective Building Trades.
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
First recorded in 1840–50; adj. use of verb phrase tilt up
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Over each hole you set a small contrivance called a "tilt-up."
Fisherman's LuckHenry van Dyke