TILTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tilter mean? 

• TILTER (noun)
  The noun TILTER has 2 senses:

1. someone who engages in a tilt or joust

2. a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs

  Familiarity information: TILTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TILTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who engages in a tilt or joust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("tilter" is a kind of...):

challenger; competition; competitor; contender; rival (the contestant you hope to defeat)

Derivation:

tilt (charge with a tilt)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tilter" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Derivation:

tilt (heel over)

 Context examples 

He is a valiant man, but I fear that he is scarce firm enough upon the saddle to bear the thrust of such a tilter as this stranger promises to be.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, John, so strong and strange a tilter must fight for the brightness of his lady's eyes or the curve of her eyelash, even as Sir Nigel does for the Lady Loring.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)