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Atilt

At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.

📖 Definitions of "Atilt"

adjective
  1. 1

    At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.

    "The child listened, her head atilt."

adverb
  1. 1

    At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.

    "He wore his hat rakishly atilt."

  2. 2

    Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust).

    "to run / ride atilt at someone or something"

preposition
  1. 1

    Diagonally over or across.

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