Clues for the word "TILT"

We've had 166 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 428 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on January 30, 2026.

Definition of tilt

n. - A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
n. - The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
n. - A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
v. t. - To cover with a tilt, or awning.
v. t. - To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
v. t. - To point or thrust, as a lance.
v. t. - To point or thrust a weapon at.
v. t. - To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
v. i. - 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.
v. i. - To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
n. - A thrust, as with a lance.
n. - A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
n. - See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
n. - Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.