Crossword Path

Find words for crosswords, Scrabble and word games

Word entry · 4 letters

tilt

Best crossword clue

"slant to one side"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /tɪlt/Part of speech noun, verbSorted ilttStarts with TEnds with T2 cluesVery common crossword word
1T2I3L4T

Definitions

  1. pitching dangerously to one side

Word origin

From Middle English tilte, from Old English *tyltan, *tieltan (“to be unsteady”), related to the adjective tealt (“unsteady”), from Proto-West Germanic *talt, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”), see also Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Cognate with Icelandic tölt (“an ambling pace”).

Used in a sentence

  • Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.
  • For as the Trunk of the Body, is kept from tilting forvvard by the Muſcules of the Back: So, from falling backvvard, by theſe of the Belly.
  • “Marge Gets A Job” opens with the foundation of the Simpson house tilting perilously to one side, making the family homestead look like the suburban equivalent of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01slant to one side4 letters
02Lean to one side4 letters

Not quite right?

"Search similar patterns."

T___

Related words