| Summary: | tilt n My aunt who is 86 years old stated last week that she would rather live "in a tilt" than have to live with two families in one house. "I'd rather live in a tilt than live like this!" I believe this term is derived from the practice of tilting "longers" up against a bank, or other trees, and covering them with branches to form a shelter. JH 6/71 Used I and Sup Not used 1 Not used 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 in DNE-cit, not Sup
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