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tiltings

tiltings is the plural of tilting.

Meaning of tilting

Noun

tilting (countable and uncountable, plural tiltings)

  1. The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
  2. The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
  3. A charging with (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting.
    • […] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings.1841, Joseph Hewlett, Theodore Edward Hook, The Parish Clerk, volume 1, page 59

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Questions about tiltings

What is tiltings the plural of?
Tiltings is the plural of tilting.

Words near tiltings in the dictionary

  1. tilther
  2. tilthers
  3. tilths
  4. tilting
  5. tilting at windmills
  6. tiltings
  7. tiltlike
  8. tiltmeter
  9. tiltmeters
  10. Tilton
  11. Tilton on the Hill

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