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Definition of tilt : 1. A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
2. A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
3. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
4. A thrust, as with a lance.
5. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
6. See hammer, in the Vocabulary.
7. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
8. To cover with a tilt, or awning.
9. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
10. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
11. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
12. To point or thrust a weapon at.
13. To point or thrust, as a lance.
14. To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.

Synonyms:

public debate, fee, dip, controversy, argumentation, collision, rock and roll, reel, disceptation, skirmish, tendency, wobble, combat, be given, switch, sky, angle, listing, run, lean, scuffle, lurch, struggle, slide, fracas, change over, wrestle, fall, tend, contention, fish, straight, pitch, change, stir, floor, tiptoe, set up, tip, rivalry, speeding, magnetic inclination, inclination of an orbit, rock music, flip, swag, duel, huckster, rock candy, tussle, rock 'n' roll, disposition, tumble, agitate, transfer, shift, toss, joust, gear, line, proclivity, tip off, vend, contest, meet, conflict, rock, list, scrimmage, debate, monger, incline, keel, tippytoe, budge, angle of inclination, parameter, contend, bung, bout, statement, argument, contestation, charging, weight, heel over, magnetic dip, battle, war, careen, disputation, tap, coggle, hawk, stagger, moving, competition, heel, cant over, literary argument, line of reasoning, deliver, peddle, dislodge, logical argument, sway, inclination, cant, attack, arguing, rock'n'roll, fight, propensity, angle of dip, reposition, stone, rake, topple, drop, shimmy, inclining

crookedness, bent, leaning, slant, slope, angularity

Usage examples:

• As the youngster was running full tilt, her own impetus sent her rolling over and over into the center of the dusty turnpike. - "His Dog", Albert Payson Terhune.
• As I did so he arrived full tilt, knocked my friendly ant- heap flat, and for the third time that day went a most magnificent cropper. - "Maiwa's Revenge The War of the Little Hand", H. Rider Haggard.
• Then, remembering Miss Wangle's remark and the expression on Mrs. Mosscrop- Smythe's face, the lines of her mouth hardened, and there was a determined air about the tilt of her chin. - "Patricia Brent, Spinster", Herbert Jenkins.