[f. TILT v.1 + -ED1.]
1. Poised or thrust, as a weapon in tilting: (loosely) fought or engaged in, as a tilt or tournament.
1776. Mickle, trans. Camoens’ Lusiad, VIII. 330. At just and tournay with the tilted lance Victors they rode.
1803. Visct. Strangford, Camoens’ Lusiad, VI. xlii. Their own compatriots … Who erst the tilted fight ’gainst England’s Twelve maintain’d.
1861. Lytton & Fane, Tannhäuser, 23. And from that hour, in court, And chase, and tilted tourney, many a month,… Men miss’d Tannhäuser.
2. Abruptly inclined or sloped from the erect or the horizontal position. In quot. a. 1613, obtained or emptied out by tilting the vessel.
a. 1613. Overbury, Characters, Whore (1615), E ij. Her body is the tilted Lees of pleasure.
1892. Pall Mall G., 4 June, 1/3. The steep northern escarpment, the tilted strata of which … suggest … the denudation of the Weald.
1906. Daily News, 3 July, 6. The question of speed … is … of the greatest importance where a train runs round what I may call a tilted curve.
