tilt
verb (used with object)
to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant.
tilter
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a word derived from
tilt.
Example Sentences
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Its signature red neon sign has not changed, nor have the references to Don Quixote, the Spanish tilter of windmills, on its painted walls, frosted glass, ceramics and more.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
History’s most famous tilter is also arguably Spanish literature’s most famous character, Don Quixote de la Mancha, who is one of Mr. de Nieves’s heroes.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2018
It is rather that he too is a merchant of slightly skewed dreams, a tilter at his industry's conventional wisdom and a man who is himself a typical American genius, half visionary, half humbug.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dwight Macdonald is a genial tilter at windmills, and in his time he has bowled over more than his share.
From Time Magazine Archive
Except for a stammer, he outgrew both defects, and became a skilled tilter and marksman, as well as an accomplished scholar and a diligent student of theology.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
