Summary: | tilt n "Smokes like a bay tilt" - A bay tilt is a rough cabin used for cutting logs in winter. Its stove was usually full of holes and the room was often full of smoke. It is applied to one who smokes a lot. One usually burns boughs in a tilt (shack). The boughs would make a lot of smoke. [Belleoram] DNE-cit JH 4/70 Used I and Sup Used I 3 Used I tilts, tilt-back, tilt line, Tilt's distance, BAY TILT, linneys, smoke like a tilt, sit in one end of a tilt and burn the other sense 3 from DNE-cit, not Sup; cited under P 108-70 in DNE
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