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tilter::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | device |
| Derivation | tilt |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | challenger, competition, competitor, contender, rival |
| Derivation | tilt |
Examples of tilter
tilter
The reference to literature's most famous windmill-tilter needed no explanation.
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He may state his case incessantly but he is a tilter against Establishment inertia.
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He was laughed off as a windmill tilter, shrugged off as a lackluster campaigner, written off as a condescending cynic.
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He is a terrific tilter against authority.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
The gaunt windmill-tilter is celebrated in the town's famous Cervantes Museum, with its exhausting array of paintings, statues, mosaics, books, etc.
From the sfgate.com
It is rather that he too is a merchant of slightly skewed dreams, a tilter at his industry's conventional wisdom and a man who is himself a typical American genius, half visionary, half humbug.
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- Someone who engages in a tilt or joust
- A device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs
- (Tilters) Wilfred "Mickey" Fields was a Baltimore-area jazz saxophonist, a local legend who refused to play outside the Baltimore area. He was perhaps the most well-known of Baltimore's many sazophonists within the field of jazz.
- A tournure-like bustle with shirring containing the springs in a separate piece, and adjustable.
- UpMechanism that controls the angle of the slats or vanes. A cord tilter is standard on most 2" horizontal blinds and consists of two separate pull cords with tassels. ...
- Metal swivel devices placed on the bottom of each back leg of a chair so that the sitter could lean back. Patented by the Shakers.
- Device for mounting a cymbal on a stand at an angle
