Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tilt \Tilt\, n.
   1. A thrust, as with a lance. --Addison.

   2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants
      attacked each other with lances; a tournament.

   3. See {Tilt hammer}, in the Vocabulary.

   4. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

   {Full tilt}, with full force. --Dampier.