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atilt

/uh-tilt/US // əˈtɪlt //UK // (əˈtɪlt) //

倾斜,倾斜度,倾斜的,倾斜性

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : with a tilt or inclination; tilted: Hold the bottle slightly atilt.
    • : with the lance in hand in tilting.

Examples

  • In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun.

  • We will swear a truce of God, neither shall run atilt at the other's convictions until he is invited to do so.

  • They spread themselves about and keep alternate watch, and, lying along the grass, drink deep and set brazen bowls atilt.

  • At any hour of the forenoon you could see the rows of porkmen sitting on chairs atilt on the flags.

  • But he had to stop to sing atilt of an elder stem before he could go on to tell his spouse about them.