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tilt
noun- especially in the Maritime Provinces, a crude shelter, open on one side and with its back to the wind CANADA
- In a fisherman’s “tilt” or hut, McKay’s observant eye noticed a piece of bright yellow stone on the mantelshelf. — Michael Harrington, Sea Stories from Newfoundland, p. 34, 1958
- The tilt was a trapper’s winter quarters and the slanted gable was a protection against heavy snowfall, helping prevent the entrance becoming snowbound. — Beaver, p. 16/1, Summer 1966
- in pinball, a mechanism on the machine that ends a game when the player moves the machine too forcefully US
- — Edward Trapunski, Special When Lit, p. 155, 1979
▶ on tilt
used of a poker player’s playing, exceptionally poor US- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 285, 1979
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