[f. TILT v.1 + -ING2.] That tilts, in various senses.
1. Moving unsteadily, rising and falling, swaying up and down. (See also 3.)
1605. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iii. I. 123. Sea’s foaming Course, whose ever-Tilting Tide (Ebbing or flowing) is confin’d to Season.
c. 1630. in Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 225 (1810), 239. Her tilting tides near unto Appledore Have clean swept Hubba’s trophy off the shore.
1841. Catlin, N. Amer. Ind. (1844), I. vi. 40. He approached … with a slow and tilting step.
2. Justing; encountering in, or as in, a tilt.
1679. Crowne, Ambitious Statem., III. I have seen … their tilting lips meet close, and grapple.
3. Causing something to tilt or slant; also, that is or can be tilted.
1807. Herschel, in Phil. Trans., XCVII. 190. A tilting motion, given to the lens … will move the two sets of rings from side to side.
1907. Daily Chron., 14 May, 6/3. The cost of tilting standards and electroliers was shown to be excessive.
