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tilt
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Definition:3. The cloth covering of a cart, wagon or boat; a cloth shelter or covering of any kind, such as a tent.1. a thrust / to thrust, as with a lance.2. a jousting tournament / to joust
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Let him and Alexey Alexandrovitch tilt at each other in the committee—that’s no affair of ours.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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it was a fool’s errand, that they had taken up rubber lances to tilt at a lethal windmill,
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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there were runaway carts at full gallop plunging into the ditches, jumping over yard after yard of stones, clambering up the hills, with women leaning out from the tilt to catch hold of the reins. Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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