| Summary: | tilt n .leading in about fifty yards to a very good 'tilt.' This was formed of trunks of trees placed upright on the ground close together, and larger ones for the corner-pieces, and a good strong gable-end roof formed of a frame of roughly squared beams. The cor- ner pieces and beams were nailed together, and the rest driven in tight with wooden wedges wherever necessary. The interstices of those trunks which formed the walls were filled up with moss tightly rammed between them; and the roof was covered by long strips or sheets of birch bark, laid tile-like over one another, and kept down by poles or sticks laid across them. In this way a tolerable room, twelve or fourteen feet by eight or ten, is formed. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M. Story June 1960 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 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 1 from DNE-cit, not Sup
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