[f. TILT sb.1] trans. To cover with a tilt or awning. (Chiefly in pa. pple.)
1499. [implied in TILTING vbl. sb.2].
1587. M. Grove, Pelops & Hipp., Poems (1878), 22. Omaus king doth stay Ere this time long in closet tilte To heare what we can say.
1588. Parke, trans. Mendoza’s Hist. China, 295. A great barke … very well tilted and dressed.
1625. Gonsalvio’s Sp. Inquis., 64. To row vpon the riuer in Barges tilted with purple and silke.
1818. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., LXXXVII. 479. Felt, with which they tilted their waggons.
1839. Sat. Mag., Supp., June, 253/2. The cart is tilted with canes and straw neatly wattled.
