tilting Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb to incline or bend from a vertical position
    tilt; tip; lean; slant; angle.
    • She leaned over the banister
  2. verb heel over
    tilt; cant; slant; cant over; pitch.
    • The tower is tilting
    • The ceiling is slanting
  3. verb move sideways or in an unsteady way
    tilt; wobble; careen; shift.
    • The ship careened out of control
  4. verb charge with a tilt
    tilt.

WordNet

Tilt"ing noun
Definitions
  1. The act of one who tilts; a tilt.
  2. The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.

Webster 1913