Crossword clues for tilting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tilt \Tilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting.] To cover with a tilt, or awning.
Tilting \Tilt"ing\, n.
The act of one who tilts; a tilt.
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The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
Tilting helmet, a helmet of large size and unusual weight and strength, worn at tilts.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The motion of something that tilts; a tilt. 2 The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer. vb. (present participle of tilt lang= en)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Tilting may refer to:
- Tilt (camera), a cinematographic technique
- Tilting at windmills, an English idiom
- Tilting theory, an algebra theory
- Tilting three-wheeler, a vehicle which leans when cornering while keeping all of its three wheels on the ground
- Tilting train, a train with a mechanism enabling increased speed on regular railroad tracks
- Tilting, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town on Fogo Island, Canada
- Tilting, a type of jousting
Usage examples of "tilting".
Clodius Afer, tilting his head to peer at the curving surface of the ceiling eighty feet above.
In the alameda an old woman in a black rebozo was going about tilting the metal tables and chairs to let the water run off.
Tilting the parchments to catch the scant light of the nearby hearth, Alec bent dubiously to his task.
Then, as in the tilting of a mirror, it shifted again to resemble a many-hoofed, amethystine crustacean coated in sores of oozing puss, out of which sprouted many black shiny eyes, which in turn were mounted on swaying, antennae-like projections.
Lady, and still deemed that the white-skinned woman whom he had seen sitting by the Lord after the tilting was the Queen.
He would be at me ledge, tilting back his head and looking up at the lower of the two dihedrons in the beam of his helmet lamp.
The diner seats himself, fixes a pipe to the spigot in his cheek, so that he may drink continously as he dines, so avoiding the drudgery of opening flasks, pouring out mugs or goblets, raising, tilting and setting down the mug or goblet, with the consequent danger of breakage or waste.
Approaching slowly, Durand kept tilting his head to observe the robot from new angles.
Another frantic slave-child was ejected upwards from the scrum by the door, screaming until it slapped into the ceiling and dropped lifeless to the slowly tilting deck.
I stood, plucking at the fringes on the skirt, while Maud ran to her jewel box for a brooch, that she fastened to my bosom, tilting her head to see how it looked.
He said nothing, and after Gascoyne had placed the open bascinet that supports the tilting helm in its place, he came forward and examined the armor piece by piece, carefully and critically, testing the various straps and leather points and thongs to make sure of their strength.
Miss Giggs, looking at a pair of scarlet satin evening shoes in an embarrassed manner and tilting her full plate dangerously.
He began his pullout at a thousand feet, wingtips thudding and blurring in that gigantic wind, the boat and the crowd of gulls tilting and growing meteor-fast, directly in his path.
He lifted one shoulder in a shrug, tilting his head down to speak to me.
Gil and Rudy moved cautiously through the broken, silent Palace, past empty chambers teeming with eruptions of mosses or slithering with vines, and over crazy, tilting pavements where the rotting tapestries whispered with a horrible suggestion of rodent life.