3. (Naut.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended
over the sternsheets of a boat.
Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth. — Tilt
roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon.
Tilt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting.] To cover
with a tilt, or awning.
Tilt, v. t. [OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt unstable,
precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to vacillate, D. tel amble,
ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. tölt an ambling pace, tölta to amble. Cf.
Totter.] 1. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging
liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.