Word Meanings - TILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. Tilt boat , a boat covered with canvas or other cloth. -- Tilt roof , a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon. (more info) geteld; akin to OD.

Additional info about word: TILT

A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. Tilt boat , a boat covered with canvas or other cloth. -- Tilt roof , a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon. (more info) geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw. tält, tjäll, 1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. Denham. 2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

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• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• HEADING
  A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. (more info) 1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head. 2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• HEADLAND
  1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• HEADNOTE
  A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.
• WAGON
  The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.
• AWNINGED
  Furnished with an awning.
• HEADFISH
  The sunfish .
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• AWNING
  awan, awang, anything suspended, or LG. havening a place sheltered 1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. 2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond
• BEASTLIHEAD
  Beastliness. Spenser.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• THORN-HEADED
  Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm , any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• TORSION HEAD
  That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
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• BULLHEAD
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• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• DUNDERHEAD
  A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.
• STEELHEAD
  A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• PIG-HEADED
  Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig"-head`ed*ness, n.