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. - THORN-HEADED
Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm , any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - 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
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - BULLHEAD
A small black water insect. E. Phillips. Bullhead whiting , the kingfish of Florida . (more info) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's - 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.